Meta Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan's podcast that members of President Biden's administration yelled at his employees and demanded they remove content on their behalf.
Mita recently announced that she would be End controversial fact-checking practices And lifting restrictions on expression in order to “restore freedom of expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, acknowledging that current content moderation practices “have gone too far.” Zuckerberg spoke About the platform's struggles to preserve free speech while fending off pressure from the Biden administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During the Biden administration, when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program,” he added. Social media “While they were trying to push this program, they also tried to censor anyone who basically argued against it,” the CEO said. “They pushed us hard to remove things that were frankly true. They pressured us and said, 'You know that' anything that says vaccines might be It has side effects, you basically have to delete it.' And I was like, 'We're not going to do that, and obviously we're not going to do that, I mean that's undoubtedly true.'
Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke at length about the pressure he faced from the government, especially the Biden administration, to censor content on their behalf.
“Who are they?” Rogan asked. “Who was asking you to remove things that talk about side effects of the vaccine?”
“It was the people in the Biden administration,” Meta's CEO said.
He then talked more about “government oversight,” much of which he says the congressional investigation covered up. “I basically mean these people from the Biden administration are going to call up our team and yell at them and curse them out,” he said. “It's as if these documents are there.”
Zuckerberg summarized that the conflict between his company and the government “had gotten to this point where we were saying, 'No, we're not going to remove the real stuff. This is ridiculous.'”
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Host Joe Rogan asked Zuckerberg if there were any repercussions for those who called for Americans to be censored. Those who lost the 2024 presidential election, Zuckerberg joked.
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Rogan later asked about the response after the investigation: Was anyone held accountable? Were there any repercussions?
“I mean, they lost the election,” Zuckerberg joked.
