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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/meta-ceo-admits-biden-harris-admin-pressured-company-censor-americans
( And how many are DEAD because they got the shot after NOT hearing the truth about its dangers?They were only able to read ONE side about it.)
Meta CEO admits Biden-Harris admin pressured company to censor Americans
Mark Zuckerberg: 'I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it'
By Greg Wehner FOXBusinessFOX
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
admitted in a letter on Monday that his company, Facebook, was
pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans,
particularly regarding COVID-19 content.
Zuckerberg
made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with
thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content
moderation on online platforms.
Along with documents, the Meta CEO
said, the company has provided a dozen employees to be available for
transcribed interviews, stressing Meta’s cooperation with the investigation.
"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. "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."
Facebook
co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to
the House Judiciary Committee that the Biden-Harris administration
pressured his company to censor COVID-19 content posted by Americans. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images / Getty Images)
He
told Jordan that in 2021, "senior officials" from the Biden
administration and White House "repeatedly pressured our teams for
months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire."
When Facebook did not agree with the censorship, Zuckerberg said, the Biden administration expressed a lot of 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," Zuckerberg wrote. "I believe
the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more
outspoken about it.
Mark
Zuckerberg wrote a letter to the House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim
Jordan on Monday, admitting to being pressured by the Biden-Harris
admin to censor Americans during the pandemic. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
"I
also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and
new information, we wouldn’t make today," he added. "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."
FOX Business reached out to the White House for comment
regarding the allegations. Facebook declined to comment beyond the text
of the letter.
The committee first subpoenaed Meta for documents
and information on Feb. 15, 2023, related to content moderation and
Meta's engagements with the executive branch to censor speech.
At
the time, the committee was investigating whether, and to what extent,
the executive branch pressured or worked with private companies to
stifle or tamp down certain kinds of speech at the request of the
government, which could potentially be a violation of the First Amendment.
In Monday’s letter, Zuckerberg also wrote about throttling the Hunter Biden laptop story.
He
wrote that the FBI warned his company about "a potential Russian
disinformation operation" regarding the Biden family and Burisma,
leading up to the 2020 election.
Zuckerberg said a New York Post
story that fall reported on corruption allegations involving Biden’s
family, so they had fact-checkers review the story and temporarily
demote it while waiting for a reply.
"It’s
since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian
disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,"
Zuckerberg wrote. "We’ve changed our policies and processes to make
sure this doesn’t happen again – for instance, we no longer temporarily
demote things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers."