The CEO of Meta made these allegations in a letter to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on August 26.
In addition to other judgments he had made regarding the removal of specific content while running Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Zuckerberg expressed regret for keeping quiet about this pressure at an earlier time.
This included what Zuckerberg called “humor and satire,” claiming that when Meta refused to comply, government representatives expressed “a lot of frustration.”
“In the end, we owned the decision to remove content, including the adjustments we made to our enforcement in response to COVID-19.
He went on: “I regret that we were not more vocal about the government pressure; I think it was wrong.”
Additionally, I believe that we made some decisions that we wouldn’t make now if we had the benefit of hindsight and new facts.
President Joe Biden claimed in July 2021 that social media sites like Facebook were “killing people” because they permitted false information regarding coronavirus vaccinations to be shared on their platform during the pandemic.
