Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Facebook implemented a censorship regime to suppress American speech under pressure from the federal government.
On Monday, Zuckerberg sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee outlining the myriad ways Facebook aided federal officials in a censorship campaign to crack down on dissident content related to the coronavirus pandemic and Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Ultimately, 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.”
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
Zuckerberg said he believes the government pressure campaign was inappropriate.
“I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he wrote. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
“We’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” the tech CEO added.
Zuckerberg also wrote that Facebook suppressed stories related to Hunter Biden’s laptop in the final weeks of the
