(Congress Report) – Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is finally admitting the truth about the role his company played in censoring legitimate information and points of view concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. He also disclosed what part President Joe Biden and his administration played in pushing Meta to slap digital duct tape on the mouths of anyone who dared to try and go against the official government narrative. That in and of itself is incredible. Nobody expected those who were behind all of this censorship to finally spill the beans and come clean with what they did. But the question that remains is: What kind of consequences, if any, should folks like Zuckerberg face for what they have done?
“The disclosure came in a Monday letter to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as part of an inquiry into the content moderation on social media platforms in the run-up to and the aftermath of the 2020 elections,” The Western Journal reported.
“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 went on to write. “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.”
What needs to be repeated here is that the most powerful government on earth had some very detailed “concerns around public discourse and public safety” which are blanketed code words for wanting to censor those individuals who might share content that the government deems as “disinformation.”
“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,” Zuckerberg continued. “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,” he added. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
Zuckerberg confessed that Meta should not have been involved in the censorship of the New York Post story that came out just days before the election concerning Hunter Biden’s now infamous laptop, going on to say that the reason they did so was because the FBI had issued them a warning concerning a “potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.”
“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply,” he said.
“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” he stated in the letter, going on to say that Meta’s platforms “no longer temporarily demotes things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.”
“While, yes, the time period in question is far shorter, the impact on American public discourse was also far greater. Pew Research reported in 2024 that 68 percent of Americans used Facebook and 47 percent used Instagram, Meta’s two biggest platforms in the United States,” the piece revealed. “For one-to-many digital communications, the platforms have long overtaken email and other digital social networks as an outlet for speech.”
Zuckerberg most certainly deserves a huge cut of the blame for this censorship and the ugly results that came out of it, but do not forget that it was done due to a lack of backbone and because of the pressure applied to him and his company by the federal government. It was the federal government that desperately wanted to violate our First Amendment rights, and did so, without any sort of remorse for the awful things that followed.
Granted, X owner Elon Musk has not bowed to the will of the government no matter how hard they’ve attacked and pushed him, but unfortunately, not everyone is so mentally tough. Like Zuckerberg for example, who is on the spineless side.
“The only real upside to this is that, while this sort of thing kept the Biden campaign and administration’s factual prestidigitations alive for longer than they should have been, this may end up sinking Kamala Harris’ campaign, at least in its attempts to control the narrative. After all, unsavory or unpopular information is going to be a lot harder to suppress via nudging pressure if Zuckerberg and Musk are completely upfront about it. If anything, it’ll be a case of the Streisand effect: The pressure will only draw attention to the adversarial information,” the article noted in conclusion.
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Don’t forget she was along side of Biden during all his disastrous decisions and bragged about the times she was the last person with him when a decision was made! Harris is the same “worst VP ever” , nothing as changed—same person same BAD POLITICIAN.