Zuckerberg: Biden Admin, FBI ‘Repeatedly Pressured’ Facebook to ‘Censor’ COVID Content, Hunter Biden Story

Zuckerberg's Congressional Hearing Gets the Bad Lip Reading Treatment

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan that Joe Biden’s administration “repeatedly pressured” Faceboook to censor some COVID content and throttle the Hunter Biden story.

The admin even showed frustration when the company refused.

“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,” wrote Zuckerberg.

Remember when Biden told the press that Facebook was “killing people” by allowing the spread of COVID misinformation? I do!

The CEO admitted the company ultimately decided when and what to censor, and all of them “own our decisions.”

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” continued Zuckerberg. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make it today.”

Zuckerberg added: “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 decision – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

Yeah, we covered a few times Facebook made such moves:

But then Zuckerberg also admitted the FBI pressured Facebook to suppress The New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020.

Zuckerberg told Jordan that the FBI had approached Facebook “about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.”

The CEO didn’t say when that happened, but I guess before The New York Post dropped the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020.

Once the story surfaced, Facebook demoted the story until fact-checkers could confirm the story.

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” stated Zuckerberg. “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.”

Yeah, we also knew the FBI pressured Facebook to suppress the story:

Tags: Facebook, FBI, Free Speech, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Social Media

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