Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan on Friday that officials in President Joe Biden's administration had yelled at the company's employees over content censorship and used profanity. He said he would probably throw words at them.
The Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor posts about the coronavirus that it deemed misinformation, according to a document released by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan in July 2023. That's what it means. Mr. Zuckerberg said,joe rogan experience” revealed that Mehta also faced scrutiny and backlash after Biden. accused Facebook “murdered” in July 2021 for not censoring false information about the so-called new coronavirus infection. (Related: Supreme Court sides with Biden administration in landmark censorship case)
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“Basically, people in the Biden administration are like calling our teams and screaming at them and swearing at them,” Zuckerberg said. “And these documents are just like that, everything is there.”
Rogan asked if Mehta had recorded the call, and Zuckerberg said he didn't think so.
“So, we're getting emails. Emails are going to be published. It's all there…. And basically we're saying, 'No, we're not going to do that — we're not going to do that — we're going to do something that's true. We've reached a point where we're not going to delete it. That’s ridiculous,” Zuckerber said. “They should take down this meme that says Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be watching TV and in 10 years or whatever, he's going to see an ad that says, 'Okay, you get the COVID vaccine.' It's like a class action lawsuit type of meme that says, “I asked for this. I deserve this kind of payment.'' And they're like, 'No, we have to take it down.' ”
“We just said, 'No, we're not going to take away the humor or the satire. We're not going to take away the truth.'” And at some point, I don't know, we reversed a little bit. I think so,” he added. “I mean, Biden, at the time, he made some kind of statement at one point, I don't know if it was in a press conference or to journalists, where he basically said, 'These guys are people. And then, like, different agencies and departments of the government, they started basically investigating and going after our company. It was.”
Facebook executives believed they were in a “knife fight” with President Biden's White House over coronavirus censorship. According to In response to a House Judiciary Committee report released in May.
In August, Zuckerberg expressed regret that Facebook had bowed to pressure from the Biden administration to censor content. letter To Jordan. He said senior Biden administration officials had “repeatedly pressured” Facebook's team to censor coronavirus-related content that the platform otherwise would not have been able to suppress, and that Facebook disagreed. He wrote that he expressed his dissatisfaction.
“We believe the government's pressure was misplaced, and we regret that we did not speak up more,” Zuckerberg wrote. “I think we also made some choices that we would not have made today with the benefit of hindsight and new information.”
Zuckerberg also claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2022 that the FBI warned Facebook about a “Russian propaganda” dump just before the Hunter Biden laptop scandal broke.
“The FBI basically came to us and some of the people on our team and said, 'Let me just tell you, you should be on high alert. There was no Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. “We thought there were a lot of garbage dumps, but there are basically similar garbage dumps nearby, so be careful,” he said.
Mehta's CEO said he couldn't recall if the FBI specifically mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop incident, but claimed it fit a “pattern.”
The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.
Mehta directed the DCNF to documents released by the House Judiciary Committee and Jordan.
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