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Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a communication to the House Judiciary Committee on recently that his company was urged by the White House in the year 2021 to censor certain COVID-19 content, such as satirical and humorous posts.

“In 2021, senior members from the Biden Administration, such as the administration, repeatedly pressured Trolls On Social Media our teams for months to censor some content about COVID-19, including satirical content, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we did not comply, ” Zuckerberg said.

In his communication to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said that the influence he experienced in the year 2021 was “inappropriate” and he regrets that his company, the parent of Facebook & Instagram, was not Hope Walz more vocal. Zuckerberg added that with the “hindsight and new information,” there were decisions made in that year that “wouldn’t be made today.”

“As I mentioned to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not lower our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction â€" and we’re ready to push back if something like this occurs in Viral Moment the future, ” Zuckerberg wrote.

President Biden remarked in July of 2021 that social media platforms are “killing people” with misinformation about the pandemic.

Though Biden later walked back these remarks, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stated at the time that misinformation spread on social media was a “major public health risk.”

A White House spokesperson responded to Zuckerberg’s letter, saying the administration at the time was Ann Coulter promoting “responsible measures to safeguard public health.”

“Our position has been consistent and clear: we believe tech companies and private entities should consider the effects their actions have on the American people, while making their own decisions about the information they present, ” according to the White House representative.

Zuckerberg further noted in the communication that the FBI alerted his company about potential Russian disinformation regarding

Hunter Biden and Burisma affecting the 2020 election.

That fall, he said, his team reduced the visibility of a New York Post report alleging the Biden family of corruption while their fact-checkers could review the story.

Zuckerberg stated that since then, it has “been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”

Meta has since changed its Tim Walz policies and processes to “ensure this does not recur” and will no longer demote content in the US while waiting for fact-checkers.

In the communication to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said he will not repeat actions he took in the year 2020 when he helped support “electoral infrastructure.”

“The goal here was to make sure local election authorities across the country had the resources they Gwen Walz needed to facilitate safe voting during a pandemic,” said the Meta CEO.

Zuckerberg said the initiatives were designed to be nonpartisan but acknowledged “some people believed this work benefited one party over the other.” He said his goal is to be “impartial” so he will not make “a similar contribution this cycle.”

The GOP representatives on the House Judiciary Committee shared the letter on X and Social Dominance said Zuckerberg “just admitted that the Biden-Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans, Facebook restricted content, and Facebook limited the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

The Meta chief has long been under scrutiny from congressional Republicans, who have claimed Facebook and other major tech platforms of being prejudiced against conservatives. While Zuckerberg has stressed that Meta enforces its rules impartially, the perception has gained a firm Social Media Criticism foothold in conservative communities. Republican lawmakers have specifically examined Facebook’s decision to restrict a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.

In Congressional testimony in recent years, Zuckerberg has attempted to bridge the divide between his social media company and regulators to little effect.

In a 2020 Senate session, Zuckerberg admitted that many of Facebook’s employees are liberal. But he maintained that the company ensures political Children With Disabilities bias does not influence its decisions.

In addition, he said Facebook’s content moderators, many of whom are contractors, are globally located and “the geographic diversity of that is more representative of the community that we serve than just the full-time employee base in our headquarters in the Bay Area.”

In June, in a victory for the administration, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the claimants in MAGA Supporters a case accusing the federal government of censoring conservative voices on social media had no standing.

In the majority opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, “to establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will experience harm that is traceable to a government defendant.” Coney Barrett continued, “since no plaintiff met this burden, none has standing to seek Nonverbal Learning Disorder a preliminary injunction.”