What a shock. NOT!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/po...any-censor-americans
Mark Zuckerberg: 'I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it'

By Greg Wehner | FOXBusiness
Published August 26, 2024 10:21pm EDT

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content.

Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content moderation on online platforms.

Along with documents, the Meta CEO said, the company has provided a dozen employees to be available for transcribed interviews, stressing Meta’s cooperation with the investigation.

"There’s a lot of talk right now around how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position," Zuckerberg wrote. "Our platforms are for everyone – we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way. As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety."

He told Jordan that in 2021, "senior officials" from the Biden administration and White House "repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire."

When Facebook did not agree with the censorship, Zuckerberg said, the Biden administration expressed a lot of frustration.

"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," Zuckerberg wrote. "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," he added. "Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens."

FOX Business reached out to the White House for comment regarding the allegations. Facebook declined to comment beyond the text of the letter.

The committee first subpoenaed Meta for documents and information on Feb. 15, 2023, related to content moderation and Meta's engagements with the executive branch to censor speech.

At the time, the committee was investigating whether, and to what extent, the executive branch pressured or worked with private companies to stifle or tamp down certain kinds of speech at the request of the government, which could potentially be a violation of the First Amendment.

He wrote that the FBI warned his company about "a potential Russian disinformation operation" regarding the Biden family and Burisma, leading up to the 2020 election.

Zuckerberg said a New York Post story that fall reported on corruption allegations involving Biden’s family, so they had fact-checkers review the story and temporarily demote it while waiting for a reply.

"It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story," Zuckerberg wrote. "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 U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers."

You won't believe the number of American Marxists that agree with censorship.
And think it's funny when they're called out.

Brown shirts with red armbands and black riding boots and all.

Oh, we all believe it. Half of the people in the country are willingly subjected to tyranny.

But yet people will vote for Harris and more of the same.

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Zuckerberg wrote. "Our platforms are for everyone – we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way

I find it interesting that the little toad says he’s about promoting “speech” but I don’t t see the word “free” in that sentence. To me, that’s as good as admitting he isn’t in favor of actual freedom of speech; Mrs gear who is on farcebook tells me you have to really watch what you say or they drop the hammer on you.

^^^ Yeah, the glaring omission says it all. "We're all for speech that only agrees with us". That's what he really meant.

Zuck needs to be charged with election interference.

And kangaroo court tried in a hostile state.

“We regret that we got caught.”

There, now his statement is accurate.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Oh, we all believe it. Half of the people in the country are willingly subjected to tyranny.

Which means that the other Half of the people in the country are UN-willingly subjected to tyranny.

Zuk is acting like he pushed back against the government. In my opinion, he complied more than he pushed. I left facebook after I got a suspension for using satire by changing Wu Tang Clan aint nothing to F with to Wuhan Flu ain't nothing to F with.

He wouldn’t have admitted that in writing if he thought Harris was going to win.

He is scrambling to get ahead of the political changes he sees coming.

Jordan should file charges. Zuckerberg was in a congressional hearing and wasn't truthful.
It took a year for his conscience to kick in? Nope. He had his chance. Perhaps he can solicit advice from Martha Stewart about how to make one's cell more homey.

Why now, a couple of months before the election? He obviously knew all this from the beginning. What's his end game? Is this an attempt to try and re-assure users that they can trust whatever lies FB is going to promote this time around because they realized they screwed up last time and are sorry? Or is he reading the writing on the wall, realize the side he aligned himself with is going to lose, and trying to do damage control now before Trump wins and the new justice department takes him to court?

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Zuck needs to be charged with election interference.

And/or illegal in-kind campaign donations.

He's basically saying or confirming that they faced the same government false Russian interference claim that X did, and Musk reported, when he got the keys to the kingdom at X.
So this isn't a mistake (big surprise) but a pattern of illegal behavior. No doubt it happened at even more willing "news" outlets like the networks and other leftist outlets that we don't get to hear from.

A conspiracy to influence an election by the Fed's is what this is.

This occurred while Trump was the President because the entrenched officials are a shadow government behind the scenes that don't take orders they don't like. The ones that threaten their game.
Just think how bad it is right now and at the end of Obama's term, when they had full control.

Nice to see at least some cracks developing. Hopefully a few more credible witnesses will come forward soon enough to have some impact on those that can be persuaded.

Ironic watching @BretBaier on Fox News covering shocking censorship at META while at the same time he and Fox News censors all conversation on election fraud, same thing META censors. Fair, balanced and unafraid, what a joke. Charles Krauthammer is rolling over in his grave.

"not more outspoken about it" - hahahahaha

How about you "willingly went along with it" you obsequious lizard.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
He wouldn’t have admitted that in writing if he thought Harris was going to win.

He is scrambling to get ahead of the political changes he sees coming.

I agree. He is part of the Silicon Valley tech world even though his company operates out of SF, and the tech industry there has turned purple instead of solid blue, especially with CEOs and higher ups led by Musk. Zuckerberg sees the future and is doing damage control now.

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Originally posted by xd45man:
Zuk is acting like he pushed back against the government. In my opinion, he complied more than he pushed. I left facebook after I got a suspension for using satire by changing Wu Tang Clan aint nothing to F with to Wuhan Flu ain't nothing to F with.

That's a solid joke right there. Gonna have to add it to my repertoire

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
He wouldn’t have admitted that in writing if he thought Harris was going to win.

He is scrambling to get ahead of the political changes he sees coming.

I don't think it's that

Now that Dementia Joe is safely out of the way, they can come out with all this shit knowing that nothing will come of it.

If anything, this is a way to scapegoat Biden so that Kamala's hands are clean going forward to Election Day.