Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was pressured by the federal government to censor COVID-19 content, and he now regrets bowing to those demands.
In an Aug. 26 letter sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the tech billionaire wrote that senior officials from the Biden administration pressured his social media company to censor COVID-19 information.
“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,” he said.
“Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take the content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.”
Zuckerberg did not reveal a specific example of the type of information the federal government allegedly tried to suppress.
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Zuckerberg Says He Regrets Demoting COVID-19 Content
- by: Stephen Katte
- 08.27.24
- Source:
The Epoch Times
- 08/27/2024
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