Washington:

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Friday that the Biden administration forced Facebook to censor content surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine.

Zuckerberg made this statement on the Joe Rogan podcast.

During the multi-topic interview, Zuckerberg spoke about the issue of government censorship and noted, “It hit the hardest. I would say it was during the Biden administration when they tried to start the vaccine program. Now I’m generally pro-vaccine, I think on balance vaccines are more positive than negative but I think they’ve also Try to censor anyone who argues against it was doing”.

“They really pushed us to remove things that were honestly true. I mean, they basically pushed us and said, ‘You know anything that says vaccines have side effects.’ Can, you need to remove it,’ and I was like, ‘We’re not going to do that,'” Zuckerberg added.

He said people in the Biden administration told him to “remove things that talk about the side effects of vaccines”.

“We produced all these documents and they’re all in the public domain,” Mark Zuckerberg said, referring to the investigation and committee set up to look into government censorship. “I mean, these people in the Biden administration called our team.” will do and shout at them and curse.”

Zuckerberg added, “It just got to the point where we were like, no, we’re not going to take down the real stuff. It’s ridiculous. They want us to take down that Leonardo DiCaprio meme that There’s a TV talking about how 10 years from now or something, you’re going to see an ad that says, well, if you’ve had the COVID vaccine, you’re going to get paid like this. are eligible for, such a class action lawsuit Kind of and they’re, no, we said we’re not going to take off the humor and the sarcasm. , I don’t know if it was a press conference or some journalists, where they were being beaten and, I don’t know, then as all these agencies of the government started to investigate, it was brutal.”

In his effort to further democratize Facebook to ensure online freedom, Zuckerberg previously announced that Facebook’s parent company Meta was shutting down its censorship-sensitive fact-checking shop in the US and It is being replaced by a user-fueled “community notices” system. As used by X, the New York Post noted.

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