In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook faced significant pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to censor certain content related to COVID-19. This revelation comes over a year after Zuckerberg provided the committee with thousands of documents as part of an investigation into online content moderation.
“There’s a lot of talk right now around how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position,” Zuckerberg wrote, emphasizing Meta’s role in promoting free speech and safe connections. He disclosed that in 2021, “senior officials” from the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.”
Zuckerberg noted that when Facebook resisted the censorship demands, the administration expressed frustration. “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,” he stated. He further added, “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.”
Reflecting on the situation, Zuckerberg admitted, “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.” He reassured that Meta would resist similar pressures in the future, asserting, “I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens.”
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He means, not just POTUS, Joseph Biden per sé, rather, the Biden/Harris administration.
this is one of the most evil jewish men on this planet and I hope that we are not involved in the punishment that will bestowed on this horrid piece of flesh
Welcome to Russia (or probably China)
So why would anyone vote again for the party of censorship? They literaly have blood on their hands especially with blocking early treatments. Anyone who votes or advocates voting these psychopaths is:
עובר מצוות לא תעשה לא תעמוד על דם רעך
Zuckerburg is a left-wing “woke” Democrat, as are most of his employees. All the administration did, at most, was encourage him to do what he wanted. A good analogy would be Julius Streicher (a well known anti-Semite, hanged by the Allies after the war in part for his anti-Semitic propaganda) complaining that Hitler told him to publish anti-Semitic propaganda.