MetaFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan that members of President Biden's administration were screaming at his employees and demanding that they remove content on their behalf. .
Meta recently announced that it will be: Ending controversial fact-checking practices It lifted speech restrictions to “restore freedom of expression” across its Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, acknowledging that current content moderation practices “go too far.” Zuckerberg spoke about the platform's struggle to maintain free expression amid pressure from the Biden administration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During the Biden administration, when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program, while they were trying to promote that program, they basically tried to censor anyone who was against it. And they pushed us. ” said the social media CEO. Honestly, it's very hard to take back something that was true, and they basically forced it on us and said, “We basically need to take back the statement that vaccines can have side effects.'' he said. And I was like, “I wouldn't do that, obviously I wouldn't do that, I mean, that's an indisputable truth.”
Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke at length about facing pressure from governments, particularly the Biden administration, to censor content on their behalf.
“Who are they?” Logan asked. “Who told you to delete what you said about vaccine side effects?”
“It was the people in the Biden administration,” the Mehta CEO said.
He then spoke more about “government censorship,” much of which is covered by Congressional investigations, adding, “Basically people from the Biden administration are going to call our team and yell at us and berate us. That's what I mean.'' And it's like… all these documents are there. ”
Zuckerberg said his company's conflict with the government “has reached a point where we basically say, 'No, we're not going to delete the truth, we're not going to delete the truth, that's ridiculous.'” Summarized.
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Podcaster Joe Rogan asked Zuckerberg if there were any repercussions for those who called for censorship of Americans. Zuckerberg joked that those people lost the 2024 presidential election.
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Logan then asked about the aftermath of the investigation: “Was anyone held accountable? Was there anything, any repercussions?”
“So they lost the election,” Zuckerberg joked.
