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Zuckerberg testifies to Congress about Biden admin pressure by end of 2025?
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Zuckerberg Reveals Biden Officials 'Screamed and Cursed' to Force Meta Censorship of Vaccine Side-Effect Posts
Jan 10, 2025, 06:53 PM
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., revealed during an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the Biden administration pressured Facebook and Instagram to censor content related to COVID-19 vaccines, including true information about potential side effects. Zuckerberg stated that officials from the administration "pushed us super hard" to remove posts mentioning vaccine side effects and even demanded the removal of memes, such as one featuring Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a television. He recalled that representatives from the administration would "call up our team and scream at them and curse," describing the experience as "brutal." When Meta resisted these demands, Zuckerberg said, government agencies began investigating the company. He expressed concern over the legality of the administration's actions, suggesting that pressuring social media companies to censor content may have been unlawful.
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