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Zuckerberg: White House pressured Facebook to censor COVID-19 posts (more info inside post) (www.youtube.com)

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In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction -- and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.

Western media variants for the libs:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-administration-pressured-meta-censor-covid-19-content-2024-08-27/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/meta-zuckerberg-covid-misinformation-jordan-white-house/

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Zuckerberg also reiterated that Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, had erred in temporarily suppressing a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and said the company has since changed its policies to avoid any similar move. Specifically, he said Meta’s social networks would no longer “demote” potentially false posts or stories while it awaits a verdict from its fact-checking partners. Instead, it will wait for the results of the fact checks before taking any action.

Who are the fact-checking partners, Mark? They’re NGO cut-outs, aren’t they?

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

An interesting read (The full Letter)

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: