Zuckerberg Confesses Biden Admin Pressured Facebook to Censor COVID-19 Content

Pressure from the Biden Administration

In an explo­sive let­ter to House Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee Chair­man Rep. Jim Jor­dan (R‑Ohio), Mark Zucker­berg, the CEO of Meta (Face­book’s par­ent com­pa­ny), revealed that “senior Biden admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials, includ­ing the White House, repeat­ed­ly pres­sured” Face­book to “cen­sor” con­tent relat­ed to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2021.

Zucker­berg admit­ted that this gov­ern­ment pres­sure was “wrong” and that he regrets com­ply­ing with cer­tain demands.

Regretting the Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Coverage

Zucker­berg also acknowl­edged that Face­book’s deci­sion to lim­it the shar­ing of The Post’s exclu­sive report on Hunter Biden’s infa­mous lap­top ahead of the 2020 elec­tion was a mistake. 

He explained that pri­or to this deci­sion, the FBI had “warned” Meta about “a poten­tial Russ­ian dis­in­for­ma­tion oper­a­tion” relat­ed to the Biden fam­i­ly and Ukrain­ian ener­gy giant Buris­ma, where Hunter sat on the board of directors.

How­ev­er, Zucker­berg now con­cedes that “the report­ing was not Russ­ian dis­in­for­ma­tion, and in ret­ro­spect, we should­n’t have demot­ed the story.”

Promising Policy Changes to Prevent Similar Censorship

Zucker­berg assured the House Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee that Face­book has imple­ment­ed new poli­cies and process­es to ensure that sim­i­lar cen­sor­ship of sto­ries “does­n’t hap­pen again.” 

He stat­ed, “We’ve changed our poli­cies and process­es to make sure this does­n’t hap­pen again – for instance, we no longer tem­porar­i­ly demote things in the US while wait­ing for fact-checkers.”