Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Meta, admitted to the House Judiciary Committee that the Biden Administration pressured his company to censor Americans and throttle the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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Zuckerberg acknowledged that his staff capitulated to the demands of the Biden-Harris Administration and censored Americans.
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 tried to push back, the Biden administration expressed a lot of frustration, Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
“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.
“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.”
Meta owes millions of conservatives an apology.
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K