Facebook's CEO says that he regrets censorship re: COVID-19 vaccines

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee today that he regrets not being more outspoken about “government pressure” to take down COVID-19 related content.

Zuckerberg said senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor” content in 2021.
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I remember that Facebook censored the v injured in all sorts of ways:

  • Making it very difficult to find the group if you searched for the exact name
  • Hiding and deleting posts
  • Temporarily or permanently banning accounts for posting too much wrongthink
  • Putting certain accounts like mine into the Facebook protect program

Al Jazeera (Qatar’s version of CNN) has more on this story. Facebook also suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story- a move that clearly benefitted the president at the time.