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Zuckerberg Exposes Biden Admin’s Censorship

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In an unprecedented move, Zuckerberg exposed the Biden Administration for actively putting pressure on Meta and then Facebook during the 2020 election and beyond to censor and demote online political content, ostensibly violating the First Amendment.

The admission came in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair and conservative bulldog Jim Jordan, in which Zuckerberg admitted to being “pressured” by the Biden administration in the last few years and expressed his regret for complying.

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg wrote. “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.”
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In terms of specifics, Zuckerberg revealed that in 2021, the Biden Administration pressured Facebook “for months” amid COVID to remove political content “including humor and satire” and expressed “frustration” when Facebook resisted.

Zuckerberg commented on the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which implicated both Hunter and Joe Biden in embarrassing and illegal activity. Zuckerberg reported that the FBI had told them the story was a Russian disinformation campaign, and Facebook temporarily demoted it for fact-checking in response.

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg wrote.

He went on to say Meta has changed its policy and no longer demotes material in the US before the results of a fact-check.
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Speculation about Zuckerberg’s motives and the timing of this letter still swirls. Patrick-Bet David laid out his theories on X, which suggest that Zuckerberg is either getting ahead of a whistleblower, preparing to leave the political left, or simply motivated by honor.

Interestingly, the letter went public hot on the heels of comments made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his Monday interview with Tucker Carlson. Kennedy floated the idea that Facebook had been threatened with the revocation of its Section 230 status as a platform, not a publisher. This status makes operating as a social media platform possible by offering the platform immunity from liability for the content created by its users. Loss of this status is an “Existential threat,” according to Kennedy.

While Zuckerberg confirmed the government had pressured Facebook, something RFK and Carlson both agreed was “criminal,” he did not speak on Section 230 or any other specifics on what form the pressure took.

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