Meta went to extreme lengths, including developing a censorship system, in a failed attempt to bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a whistleblower complaint.

Meta (NASDAQ:META) was willing to censor political content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to enter the lucrative Chinese market, The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing a whistleblower complaint by a former global policy director at the company.

In her memoir, former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses CEO Mark Zuckerberg of trying to gain Chinese market access by developing censorship tools and enhancing AI capabilities, while concealing these efforts from Congress.