With censorship and not only. The informant revealed META plans to create a Chinese Facebook version

The fact that Facebook has developed a content tool to appease China, where its social network has been blocked since 2009, first reported the newspaper The New York Times in 2016. Winn-Viliama, which was responsible for the global Facebook policy before release in 2017, revealed additional details of this project.

Winn-Viliams stated in a complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which was noticed by The Washington Post that in 2014 Mark Zuckerberg formed a team that was engaged in the creation of a Facebook version that would comply with Chinese laws. She had a code name “Aldrin’s project.

As part of these efforts, Facebook should hire hundreds of moderators who would fight forbidden content. In addition to the censorship system, during negotiations with Chinese officials, it was reported that a Chinese private investment firm was allowed to view the content posted by all users from China. Hoping to get a permission to work in China, according to the revenge, Facebook also considered the opportunity to allow the Chinese government to have access to users data in this country.

In a statement for The Washington Post spokesman Andy Stone said that the company’s interest in the Chinese market “is not a mystery. ” He also claims that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a departure from the effort to create a social network for China in 2019.