Facebook’s founder and multi-billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of enemies.
That includes people who were once some of his closest friends and advisors.
And now Mark Zuckerberg could be facing criminal charges after this damning testimony before Congress.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently said that revelations that Facebook was willing to give Communist China access to the user data of Americans could lead to a criminal referral against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg cozied up to Communist China at every chance
Last week, Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked for the social media company from 2011 to 2017, testified before Congress.
During her testimony, she said Zuckerberg did everything and anything he could to cozy up to Communist China, according to a report on her testimony in Roll Call.
Wynn-Williams told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing that Zuckerberg sought “to win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion business in China.”
Hawley took to social media, although on X, not Facebook, to discuss the ongoing investigation.
“What our investigation has revealed – Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg did business with the Chinese Communist Party, built censorship tools for them, and turned over user data – and lied about it to Congress & the American people. Now it’s time for consequences”
What our investigation has revealed – Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg did business with the Chinese Communist Party, built censorship tools for them, and turned over user data – and lied about it to Congress & the American people. Now it’s time for consequences pic.twitter.com/cJwAYJ2sgj
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 10, 2025
Wynn-Williams told the Senate Committee that those steps included briefings with Communist Chinese officials on artificial intelligence technology.
“There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use,” she said.
Communist Chinese got access to American citizens’ data
She also stated that Communist China was given access to the user data of Americans who had interfaced with Chinese citizens, whose data was kept by the Chinese government.
“And here you have it, straight from a former Facebook employee … Meta was willing to store data in China & give the Chinese government access to it … To hell with Americans’ user data and personal information,” Hawley posted on social media platform X.
“It’s always been profit & power for Meta,” he wrote.
And here you have it, straight from a former Facebook employee . . .
Meta was willing to store data in China & give the Chinese government access to it
To hell with Americans’ user data and personal information
It’s always been profit & power for Meta pic.twitter.com/zgd4f3LQ7a
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 9, 2025
“This is extraordinary. This is exactly contrary to what Facebook has represented for years,” Hawley said in a video shared with his post.
“Here they’re willing to build data centers [to] store data in China. They’re willing explicitly to give the Chinese government access to it,” he said
“And if that means that American user data is also compromised, they’re willing to do that, too. All for profits in China. There was virtually nothing they weren’t willing to do.”
Hawley also said he thinks there is a lot more to learn about how Meta kowtowed to Communist China.
“They’re flying CCP officials to the United States and doing meetings, I mean, that is something. So I think it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Hawley said.
“We may need to refer him to the Department of Justice. We’ll look and see if there are other instances that we need to be pursuing in that regard,” Hawley said.
He said past testimony from Zuckerberg about Meta’s partnership with China was “at best highly misleading.”
And Hawley wasn’t the only Senator upset by Zuckerberg’s actions.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) was also angry, saying the “American people are going to be pretty outraged that Mark Zuckerberg sold out America with China, that he imperiled our national security.”