COVID-19

Meta's founder admits that the Biden administration pressured his team to review content on the platform

ChainCatcher news, the founder and CEO of Meta admitted that the Biden administration pressured his team to review content on the platform. Zuckerberg stated:"In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, pressured our team multiple times to review certain content related to COVID-19, including humorous and satirical content, and when we disagreed, they expressed great frustration with our team. Ultimately, the decision to remove content was ours, and we are responsible for our decisions, including the modifications made under this pressure regarding COVID-19 related content.""I believe the government's pressure was wrong, and I regret not being more outspoken at the time. I also think we made some choices that, in hindsight and based on new information, we should not have made. As I told our team at the time, I firmly believe we should not compromise our content standards due to any government pressure.""In another instance, the FBI warned us that there might be a Russian disinformation campaign regarding the Biden family and Burisma before the 2020 election. That fall, when we saw the New York Post's report on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's family, we sent the report to fact-checkers for review and temporarily reduced its distribution weight while waiting for a response.It later became clear that this report was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have reduced its distribution weight. We have changed our policies and processes to ensure this does not happen again."
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