Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook was “pressured” by the U.S. government to censor COVID-19 content during the pandemic and expressed regret for complying with those demands.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly urged our teams for months to censor specific COVID-19 content, even humor and satire,” Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Although the decision to remove content was Meta’s, he stated, “The government pressure was inappropriate, and I regret that we were not more vocal about it.”
During the pandemic, Facebook faced criticism from opponents of lockdowns, vaccines, and mask mandates for removing posts it deemed contained misinformation about the virus or violated its policies. In total, Facebook took down over 20 million pieces of content in just over a year. Mark Zuckerberg, like other social media executives such as Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, has expressed regret over content moderation decisions that, in
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