Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden administration pressured his companies to censor certain COVID-related content and that he regrets throttling the Hunter Biden laptop story in an August letter to the House Judiciary Committee.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden administration pressured his social media companies “to censor certain COVID-19 content” and that it was wrong to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
In a letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg wrote, “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”
“Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure,” Zuckerberg stated.
“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” the Meta CEO wrote, adding:
I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.
Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Meta is the parent company that owns two of the biggest social media platforms in the world, Facebook and Instagram. During the COVID crisis, these platforms engaged in heavy censorship against content that went against the mainstream narrative. In May 2021, LifeSiteNews’ main Facebook page was permanently banned for publishing what the social media company deemed “false information about COVID-19 that could contribute to physical harm.”
Facebook also said they de-platformed accounts that published “vaccine discouraging information on the platform.”
In 2023, Zuckerberg admitted in an interview with Lex Friedman that Facebook censored COVID-related information that turned out to be “debatable or true.”
Despite these admissions, LifeSiteNews’ main page remains permanently banned to this day.
Elon Musk, a longtime rival and critic of Zuckerberg, commented on the letter, saying that it “(s)ounds like a First Amendment violation.”
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