The truth will set you free. But not everyone is happy about it.
And now a whistleblower is set to expose a major cover-up in front of Congress.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., dropped a bombshell Thursday on Fox News, revealing that Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former insider, is set to spill the beans next week before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.
She’ll unpack the social media titan’s murky internal culture and its questionable overseas dealings—the very issues that got her explosive memoir yanked from shelves earlier this year.
In a fiery statement to Fox News Digital, Hawley didn’t hold back, branding Meta “an amoral and corrupt company that crafted a custom censorship system for Communist China.” He also slammed their efforts to gag a truth-teller.
“Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges that Facebook is an amoral and corrupt company that crafted a custom censorship system for Communist China,” Hawley told Fox News Digital.
“Is it a surprise to anyone that Meta secured a gag order against her? Censorship is what Big Tech does best, and since Facebook is trying to quash her story, my subcommittee is going to officially investigate it,” he vowed, signaling a no-nonsense probe.
Her shelved memoir, Careless People, aimed to expose what Wynn-Williams calls Facebook’s cozy ties with regimes like China’s Communist Party, including “plans to build censorship tools, punish dissidents, and make American user data available to the CCP.”
Hawley, a key player on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, personally invited Wynn-Williams to testify after Meta killed her book. On X, he promised she’d go “in public, under oath” to lay out the “explosive” details that never saw daylight.
Insiders told Fox News Digital the hearing is a workaround to air her claims while dodging the arbitration chokehold Meta slapped on her.
The scoop, first broken to Fox News Digital, follows Meta’s move earlier this year to block Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism—a six-year insider’s account that had buzzed as one of 2024’s most anticipated reads, racking up early praise from the New York Times and beyond. It even hit pre-sale on Amazon before Meta pulled the plug.
The book promised a raw look at Meta’s internal rot—alleged harassment reaching the top brass—and its dealings with shady regimes.
But in March, Meta flexed its legal muscle, winning an arbitration fight to bury it, citing Wynn-Williams’ nondisclosure agreements. They’ve since painted her as a “disgruntled employee.”
Meta’s Dani Lever shot back to Fox News Digital, insisting, “We do not operate our services in China today,” echoing Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 pivot away from expansion there. Lever admitted past interest was no secret—part of Facebook’s old “connect the world” spiel—but said it’s ancient history.
Still, Hawley and GOP panel allies aren’t buying it. Just a day before, they kicked off an investigation into Meta’s China ties, zeroing in on AI tools possibly handed to the CCP. They’ve demanded Meta cough up “records and communications pertaining to Meta’s operations within China, including the potential use of AI models developed by or in collaboration with the CCP.”
Senate Republicans aren’t letting Meta’s muzzle slow them down. Citing internal docs, they claim Facebook’s playbook “reportedly included more engagement with the CCP, and later included plans to partner with a Chinese company to build censorship tools and provide the CCP with user data.”
Worse, they say, “Facebook’s censorship efforts on behalf of the CCP allegedly extended to dissidents outside of China, including in the United States.”
Next week’s testimony could light a fuse under Meta’s carefully curated image—and Hawley’s ready to strike the match.
