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How Mark Zuckerberg Endangered U.S. Security in Pursuit of Profit
For years, U.S. government scrutiny of Facebook (now Meta) has focused on antitrust—most recently in the Federal Trade Commission’s high-profile case alleging the company illegally cemented its monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp. But this focus misses the far graver threat Meta poses.
New evidence shows in detail how Meta has systematically undermined U.S. national security and competitiveness. The scale and intent of these actions are so grave that CEO Mark Zuckerberg deserves more than regulatory penalties: He should face criminal accountability.
Take Project Aldrin, Facebook’s secret mission to enter the Chinese market. Recent congressional testimony by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, backed up by internal company documents, details how executives created bespoke censorship tools explicitly designed to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In regular briefings to CCP officials, Facebook’s top leadership also volunteered technical expertise on artificial intelligence and content moderation—technologies that later underpinned China’s military AI development and that of the much-heralded Chinese startup DeepSeek.
According to Wynn-Williams, also author of Careless People, a memoir of her time at Facebook, from which some of these quotes are also taken, “there was no bridge too far” in what Facebook and Zuckerberg would do to curry favor with Chinese leaders. Zuckerberg himself worked hard to learn Mandarin. He traveled to China more than any other country. He even asked Chinese
New evidence shows in detail how Meta has systematically undermined U.S. national security and competitiveness. The scale and intent of these actions are so grave that CEO Mark Zuckerberg deserves more than regulatory penalties: He should face criminal accountability.
Take Project Aldrin, Facebook’s secret mission to enter the Chinese market. Recent congressional testimony by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, backed up by internal company documents, details how executives created bespoke censorship tools explicitly designed to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In regular briefings to CCP officials, Facebook’s top leadership also volunteered technical expertise on artificial intelligence and content moderation—technologies that later underpinned China’s military AI development and that of the much-heralded Chinese startup DeepSeek.
According to Wynn-Williams, also author of Careless People, a memoir of her time at Facebook, from which some of these quotes are also taken, “there was no bridge too far” in what Facebook and Zuckerberg would do to curry favor with Chinese leaders. Zuckerberg himself worked hard to learn Mandarin. He traveled to China more than any other country. He even asked Chinese
https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-15-how-mark-zuckerberg-endangered-us-security-meta-facebook-china/
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