The government is working behind the scenes against the Right. And now even the biggest names are speaking up.
And Mark Zuckerberg confessed to what Joe Biden made him do to Republicans.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bombshell on Monday, revealing that the Biden administration exerted heavy pressure on Facebook to censor COVID-19 content, and admitted it was a huge mistake to suppress The Post’s groundbreaking coverage of Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop.
In a blistering letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Zuckerberg confessed that “senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021.
The Biden administration even went so far as to demand the removal of “humor and satire,” showing just how far they were willing to go to silence dissenting voices.
Zuckerberg, now with the benefit of hindsight, expressed regret for complying with the administration’s demands.
“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he admitted. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
Determined not to repeat the same mistakes, Zuckerberg, 40, vowed to resist any future attempts by the government to manipulate content.
“Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” he declared.
In a separate but equally important admission, Zuckerberg acknowledged that censoring The Post’s exclusive report on Hunter Biden’s laptop just before the 2020 election was a grave error.
The FBI had “warned” Meta about “a potential Russian disinformation operation” connected to the Biden family and Burisma, where Hunter Biden sat on the board, but it turned out to be baseless.
Zuckerberg told the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating Facebook’s content moderation practices, that “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”
This acknowledgment is a far stronger admission of fault than his previous half-hearted apology on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2022, where he said “it sucks” that the story was suppressed.
Zuckerberg assured Jordan that Meta has implemented new policies to prevent such censorship in the future.
“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 US while waiting for fact-checkers,” the tech mogul claimed.
The censorship of The Post’s laptop exposé revealed the existence of tens of thousands of emails between Hunter Biden and his business associates, shedding light on how the president’s son leveraged his political connections for his overseas business dealings.
Adding to the controversy, Zuckerberg also stated he doesn’t plan to spend another $400 million-plus to finance local elections this cycle, a move criticized by Republicans as a blatant attempt to sway the 2020 vote.
“My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle,” he said, distancing himself from the so-called “Zuckerbucks” initiative that many believe unfairly benefited one party.
In his letter, Zuckerberg paints a picture of a tech giant under siege by a heavy-handed administration, forced to make decisions that, in hindsight, have compromised the integrity of the platform and the public’s trust.
It’s a stark reminder of the lengths to which the Biden administration was willing to go to control the narrative — a dangerous precedent that must be resisted in the future.
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