Zuckerberg slams Biden administration's pressure to censor Covid content

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Executive Director Target, Mark Zuckerbergcondemned in a letter addressed to the House Judiciary Committee, pressure what did he get from Joe Biden’s Government during the pandemic, so that social networks They will censor certain comments.

“In 2021 senior officials The Biden administration, including the White House, has repeatedly pressured our teams for months to Certain content related to COVID-19 will be censoredincluding humor And satire“And they expressed great disappointment with our teams when we did not agree,” Zuckerberg said in a letter to the committee’s chairman, Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan.

Ultimately, he explained, it was goal solution remove content or not, “the government pressure was wrong,” added the US CEO, who expressed regret that the company “wasn’t”more frank“.

Then he added: they made some decisions that “taking into account retrospective and new information” I wouldn’t take Meta today.

“As I told our teams at the time, I firmly believe that we should not compromise our standards content due to pressure from any Administration in any direction, and we are ready to fight back if something similar happens again,” he added.

In the letter Zuckerberg states that Meta’s goal is “promote freedom of expression and help people connect securely.”

A year ago Zuckerberg was supposed to provide the said committee thousands of documents in this regard, within the framework investigation This was done when moderating content on online platforms.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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