Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, his company faced pressure from senior Biden administration officials to censor certain content on its platforms.
Citing a letter addressed to the House Judiciary Committee, Reuters noted that Zuckerberg expressed regret for not opposing the pressure sooner and acknowledged certain decisions made by Meta in removing content during that period.
"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 wrote in the letter, which was posted by the Committee on the ...
