Zuckerberg Admits ‘Pressure’ From Biden Admin to Censure Content – White House Responds

Meta CEO 👤Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to the House Judiciary Committee stating there was pressure from the 🏛️Biden administration on COVID-19 content.

In the letter to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday, Zuckerberg wrote: “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. Our platforms are for everyone – we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way. As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.”

He stated that 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.”

Zuckerberg expressed regret:

“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. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. 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 to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens.”