mark zuckerberg acknowledges Biden-Harris administration forced business to block Americans

CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a letter on Monday that the Biden-Harris administration put pressure on Facebook to restrict content from Americans, especially with reference to COVID-19

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In a letter to Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (R-Ohio), Zuckerberg acknowledged the fact.

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The CEO of Meta emphasized that the company has cooperated with the investigation by providing papers and a dozen personnel who are ready for transcribed interviews.

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There’s a lot of talk right now around how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position," Zuckerberg wrote

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Jordan was informed by him that in 2021, the White House and Biden administration's "senior officials" "repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.

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"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.

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I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it

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