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Mark Zuckerberg Submitted a letter Mehta told House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Monday that the company censored certain coronavirus-related content in 2021 on platforms it owns, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
This letter, The Commission’s ongoing investigations About how the federal government is involved in content moderation choices made by tech companies.
Zuckerberg said Meta took the move in response to months of growing pressure from the Biden administration, including the White House, after Biden administration officials “expressed significant frustration” when the Meta team initially did not agree to its requests to remove content, including satirical and humorous posts.
“I think the government pressure was misguided and I regret that we weren’t more vocal about it,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in January 2024. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Ultimately, it is Meta’s decision to censor some posts, and “those decisions are our responsibility,” Zuckerberg said.
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The White House Publicly criticizing Facebook In 2021, Facebook was identified as a hotbed of COVID-19 misinformation, and President Joe Biden said Facebook and other social platforms “Kill someone‘False claims’
Zuckerberg said in the letter that, looking back, Meta wouldn’t make the same choice today that it would in 2021, and that the company is ready to fight back if similar content moderation requests come again from administrations of any party.
“As I told my team then, I feel strongly that our content standards should not be compromised in response to pressure from the administration, and we are prepared to fight back if this happens again,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Zuckerberg’s letter states that Meta was New York Post article Mehta did not comment on the corruption allegations surrounding Joe Biden’s family while waiting for fact-checkers. The FBI had warned Mehta about a possible Russian disinformation campaign against the Biden family before the 2020 election, which led to his demotion.
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After its investigation, Meta found that the report was not related to Russian disinformation, and the company has since overhauled its policies to ensure such a mistake never happens again, Zuckerberg assured the committee chairman in a letter.
Meta posted better-than-expected profits last month. Sales: $39.1 billion That beat analysts’ expectations of $38.3 billion for the quarter ended June 30.
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