Josh Hawley Goes Nuclear On Mark Zuckerberg: 'Worked Hand In Glove With The Chinese Communist Party For Years'

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At Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, and slammed Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

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00:00representations to the United States Congress. Let me just say as we begin, this is a hearing

00:07that Facebook has tried desperately to prevent. Facebook is one of the most powerful companies

00:13in the world. It is one of the most powerful companies in the history of the world, and they

00:18have stopped at absolutely nothing to prevent today's testimony. They've absolutely gone to

00:25war to try to prevent it. Our witness today is a whistleblower, and not just a whistleblower,

00:30but a longtime executive at Facebook. She worked directly with Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl

00:36Sanders and the Facebook brass. She was a part of the Facebook brass, and they have gone

00:44scorched earth to prevent her from telling what she knows. They've sued her. They have sought a gag

00:51order against her. They have begged courts to take her book off of the shelves. They tried to get

00:56it stopped from being printed in the first place. They have threatened her, get this, with $50,000

01:03in punitive damages every time she mentions Facebook in public. $50,000 every time she mentions Facebook

01:15in public, even if the statements that she is making are true. And even as we sit here today, Facebook

01:21is attempting her total and complete financial ruin. They are attempting to destroy her personally.

01:28They are attempting to destroy her reputation. And I think the question is, why? Why is it that Facebook

01:35is so desperate to prevent this witness from telling what she knows? What is it that they are so afraid of?

01:43Well, we're going to find out today. And I think that we've already got a sense of it. Sarah Wynn

01:48Williams knows the truth about Facebook. That's what they fear. She knows that while Mark Zuckerberg

01:55now claims to be a champion of the United States and claims to be a free speech warrior, he in fact

02:02worked hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party for years. He in fact made censorship his business

02:11model. He in fact developed censorship tools for the Chinese Communist Party to use against its own

02:17people. He in fact made Americans own user data available, was willing to make it available to

02:24Beijing. The truth is Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have lied to the American people repeatedly. And I think

02:32as we'll see today, they have lied to Congress as well. It's time for this to stop. That's why this committee has

02:38launched a full scale investigation into the potential illegal behavior of Facebook. Today's

02:45hearing is one step in that investigation. Ms. Wynn Williams' testimony is absolutely essential to that

02:52investigation. That's why we invited her to be here today. And it is why she accepted. Facebook does not

02:58want you to hear what she has to say. I dare say China probably doesn't want you to hear what she has to

03:04say. But we are going to get the truth. And we're going to get the truth starting now. I'm delighted to

03:10have with me the ranking member, both for the subcommittee and for the full judiciary committee,

03:16Senator Durbin. And I'll turn it over to him.

03:17Thanks, Chairman Hawley, for holding this hearing. Thank you, Ms. Wynn-Williams.

Josh Hawley Goes Nuclear On Mark Zuckerberg: 'Worked Hand In Glove With The Chinese Communist Party For Years'

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