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(LifeSiteNews) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden administration pressured his social media companies “to censor certain COVID-19 content” and that it was wrong to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
In a letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg wrote, “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.”
“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 stated.
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“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” the Meta CEO wrote, adding:
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 due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Meta is the parent company that owns two of the biggest social media platforms in the world, Facebook and Instagram. During the COVID crisis, these platforms engaged in heavy censorship against content that went against the mainstream narrative. In May 2021, LifeSiteNews’ main Facebook page was permanently banned for publishing what the social media company deemed “false information about COVID-19 that could contribute to physical harm.”
Facebook also said they de-platformed accounts that published “vaccine discouraging information on the platform.”
In 2023, Zuckerberg admitted in an interview with Lex Friedman that Facebook censored COVID-related information that turned out to be “debatable or true.”
Despite these admissions, LifeSiteNews’ main page remains permanently banned to this day.
Elon Musk, a longtime rival and critic of Zuckerberg, commented on the letter, saying that it “(s)ounds like a First Amendment violation.”
Hunter Biden’s laptop and election interference
Zuckerberg also admitted that it was a mistake to censor the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
“In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election,” the letter stated.
“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporality demoted 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 said.
The “Twitter Files,” published after Musk took over the company now called X, revealed that the FBI played a significant role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story on social media, priming the key platforms’ key employees to dismiss the story as a Russian “hack and leak” operation despite the FBI’s prior knowledge of the laptop’s authenticity.
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Zuckerberg also acknowledged that “some people believe” his tremendous financial investment in supporting “electoral infrastructure” during the 2020 presidential election “benefited one party over the other,” i.e., the Democrats.
These contributions “were designed to be non-partisan – spread across urban, rural and suburban communities.”
“My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another – or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle,” he said.
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In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Zuckerberg donated more than $400 million to a left-wing non-profit, The Center for Technology and Civic Life, which then disbursed the money to local government election offices, largely in Democrat-leaning counties, as LifeSiteNews has previously reported. Analyses have shown that the funding significantly boosted Joe Biden’s vote margins in crucial swing states and may have determined the outcome of the election.
Facebook’s get-out-the-vote effort also reportedly helped register over 4 million voters before the 2020 presidential election. However, Facebook and other social media companies have shown that they have a massive anti-conservative bias and helped Democrats win elections through their one-sided censorship efforts.
U.S. citizens: Demand Congress investigate soaring excess death rates