Meta prevents the testimony of the Discomputors in the Congress in the midst of the investigation in China, said the lawyer.

Meta prevented the former Facebook executive, Sarah Wynn-Williams, from communicating with members of the congress who investigate the company’s relations with the Chinese Communist Party, said his lawyer.

Ravi Naik, the legal advisor to Wynn-Williams, told Business Insider that his client was forbidden to speak to the legislators due to an emergency arbitration meta obtained last month. The decision applies a non-negotiation clause in the Wynn-Williams departure agreement. This occurs as a bipartite survey of the Senate quotes its memories, Careless People, such as the catalyst for an investigation into Meta transactions in China.

“The congress clearly indicated that they expect to be able to communicate with Ms. Wynn-Williams, and my client wishes,” said Naik in a statement. “Meta, however, silenced Ms. Wynn-Williams through an arbitration process, which means that it is prohibited to communicate with the Congress. Ms. Wynn-Williams believe that people deserve to know the truth.”

“We do not intend to hinder his exercise of his rights,” Meta spokesperson told BI.

They added that the company did not use its services in China. “It is not a secret for anyone that we were once interested in doing so in the context of Facebook’s efforts to connect the world,” they said. “It was widely reported from ten years ago. We finally chose not to pass with the ideas we explored, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019.”

The Senate’s permanent subcommittee on investigations, chaired by Republican Senator Ron Johnson and joined by Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Republican Senator John Hawley, opened Meta’s relations with China on April 1.

The letter from the committee sent to the meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg describes on Tuesday a radical request for files dating from 2014. Legislators are looking for all meta-communizations with Chinese government officials, including the China cyberspace administration and Meta’s subsidiaries and partners in the country, among other details.

They also want information on the question of whether Llama, the META AI model, was used by the Popular Liberation Army or Chinese technological companies. The request also includes all the documents related to the “Aldrin project”, that the complaints of the book of Wynn-Williams, were the three-year plan of Meta to enter China, as well as any internal deliberation on the censorship of the content at the request of national governments.

Through her lawyer Wynn-Williams, who worked on Facebook from 2011 to 2017, said she wanted to cooperate. However, an emergency arbitration order guaranteed last month applies a clause for the non-negotiation of its dismissal agreement and prohibits it from speaking to the Congress. The decision, published one day after the publication of impartial people, also prohibited it from promoting the book or publicly criticizing the company.

Wynn-Williams spokesperson said she tried to raise the order of the gag, but the referee explicitly denied her request. The decision warned that allowing him to speak to the legislators could lead them to publicly repeat the declarations that it is prohibited to make. Allowing Wynn-Williams to speak to the legislators would create “an exception that would eat the rule” and could allow civil servants to amplify derogatory declarations, said the arbitrator.

“This decision implies that the order of gag on Ms. Wynn-Williams has the priority of elected officials to know the information relating to national security,” said his spokesperson.

Meta rejected the allegations of Wynn-Williams as false and considered him a former unhappy employee. A spokesman previously told Bi that his claims were “a mixture of date of bet and previously reported allegations on the company and false accusations on our leaders”.

Wynn-Williams, who worked on Facebook from 2011 to 2017, filed a complaint for the denouncators to the SEC. Neither the decision of the arbitrator nor the arguments of the meta in arbitration disputes the factual content of his memories, said his spokesperson.

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