Former executives revealed that Meta is helping China's AI development DeepSeek, causing outrage in Congress and leading to further investigations into Zuckerberg.

The U.S. Senate has recently launched a hearing storm against Meta (formerly Facebook), with former executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testifying before Congress, pointing out that the company not only tacitly allows cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party but also indirectly aids China in developing artificial intelligence technologies similar to ChatGPT through its AI model "Llama." The testimony has sparked widespread follow from national security, industry, and the AI Open Source community.

DeepSeek Rises: Built on Meta Technology, Challenging OpenAI's Position

Wynn-Williams pointed out in his testimony that the birth of the Chinese startup AI company DeepSeek is closely related to Meta's Open Source AI model Llama. DeepSeek successfully launched a generative AI model capable of competing with OpenAI for only 6 million dollars, demonstrating that Llama has provided strong support for the development of AI in China.

The new AI force backed by the Chinese government has raised concerns that American Open Source technology is being "reverse weaponized," allowing China to achieve breakthroughs in military and surveillance fields.

Meta Internal "Space Project": Project Aldrin Reveals Close Interaction with the CCP

According to Wynn-Williams, Meta has been secretly briefing Chinese officials on key technologies, including AI, since 2015, with the goal of "helping China defeat American competitors."

She further accused Meta of executing a plan called "Project Aldrin" to establish a physical data transmission channel between the US and China, which was ignored by senior management despite warnings from cybersecurity experts that it could become a backdoor for the Chinese Communist Party.

She emphasized: "The only thing preventing China from accessing American user data through this pipeline is the intervention of Congress."

The AI arms race heats up, adding variables to U.S.-China relations

This disclosure occurred at a time when the US-China technology war was in full swing, with the US government continuously tightening export restrictions on advanced AI chips in an attempt to slow down China's progress in the generative AI field.

"The current challenge is: how to strike a balance between ensuring national security and encouraging innovation," said Prabhu Ram, Vice President of CyberMedia Research.

He believes that if the allegations are true, it will deal a significant blow to the confidentiality and prevention of technology transfer in global AI, potentially forcing the United States to re-examine the cooperation between the public and private sectors, and even to establish new international AI regulations.

Security vulnerabilities? The "viral post review mechanism" raises questions about centralized control.

Wynn-Williams revealed that Meta has developed a so-called "virality counter" mechanism that counts viral content. When the number of views on a post exceeds ten thousand, it triggers a review process, which is manually filtered by the "editor-in-chief". This mechanism is not only applicable to China but also covers Hong Kong and Taiwan, raising concerns within the democratic camp about freedom of speech.

Senator Richard Blumenthal further described this system as an "Orwellian censorship tool." ( describes the totalitarianism in Orwell's novel "1984" ).

From language classes to business ambitions: Is Zuckerberg personally leading the strategy towards China?

According to testimonies, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally "hands-on" in entering China, even attending Chinese language classes every week to deepen interactions and cooperation with Chinese officials.

Wynn-Williams stated: "He draped the American flag over himself, calling himself a patriot, while in reality, he spent ten years building a $18 billion business empire in China."

Meta refutes allegations: testimony "disconnected from reality"

In response to a series of accusations, a Meta spokesperson refuted the claims, stating that they are "disconnected from reality and full of errors," and emphasized that Meta has not operated services in China to date, and Zuckerberg's ambitions for the Chinese market have been publicly known for many years.

However, the outside world generally believes that this matter will further drive Congress to impose stricter regulations on large technology companies.

The Double-Edged Sword of Open Source Model: Is Llama an Innovation or a National Security Risk?

Llama, as an Open Source AI model launched by Meta, has been regarded as a key force in promoting global AI democratization. It allows developers to freely train and deploy AI on their own infrastructure without relying on closed commercial models, significantly lowering the entry barrier.

However, due to its openness, it also makes national security risks difficult to manage. Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of Greyhound Research, pointed out: "We need a set of regulatory tools for the AI model itself, rather than just focusing on the hardware level. The old framework is no longer effective."

AI Regulatory Key Moments: What are the next steps?

Wynn-Williams' revelations and the ongoing investigations by Congress have ushered AI international cooperation and technology exports into a new phase. The United States is currently engaged in frequent AI research collaborations with China, but concerns about China's potential militarization of technology may lead to dramatic changes in future cooperation.

"If regulations are too stringent, they may harm America's own innovation and leadership position," warned Prabhu Ram, "We should move towards precise, targeted regulation and strengthening enforcement."

This article reveals that former high-level executives disclosed that Meta is assisting China's AI development DeepSeek, causing outrage in Congress and prompting further investigation into Zuckerberg. It first appeared in Chain News ABMedia.