{"id":340943,"date":"2024-08-28T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340943"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:40:01","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-covid-censorship-was-wrong-and-i-wish-id-fought-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340943","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg: Covid censorship was wrong and I wish I\u2019d fought it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Facebook founder claims White House \u2018repeatedly pressured\u2019 his social media giant to censor posts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration. The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter to a US committee investigating online content moderation, Mr Zuckerberg said senior White House officials \u201crepeatedly pressured\u201d the company after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that Facebook \u201cmade some choices\u201d that it would not have made today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter to Jim Jordan, the Trump-supporting head of the House of Representatives\u2019 Judiciary Committee, Mr Zuckerberg wrote: \u201cIn 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content<\/a>, including humour and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUltimately, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn\u2019t make today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction \u2013 and we\u2019re ready to push back if something like this happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the pandemic, Facebook added misinformation alerts to users when they commented on or liked posts that were judged to contain false information about Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also deleted posts criticising the Covid vaccine, or suggesting that Covid was developed in a Chinese laboratory<\/a>, a theory that has since become supported by some mainstream scientists and government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2020 election campaign, Mr Biden had accused Facebook of \u201ckilling people\u201d by not clamping down on Covid posts more enthusiastically. He later rowed back on the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Zuckerberg also said Facebook was wrong to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden, Mr Biden\u2019s son, which revealed that Hunter had offered business contacts access to his father<\/a> when he was vice president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration. 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