Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Monday that his social media company wrongly caved to government demands to “censor” COVID posts, saying his team was “frustrated” by demands by the Biden administration to crack down on so-called “disinformation,” but went along with it anyway at the point of a government gun.
In a letter addressed to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which published the correspondence in full on its social media accounts, Zuckerberg said senior officials in Biden’s administration, including the White House, repeatedly urged the company “to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”
