โThey pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true,โ the Meta CEO says.
Meta and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a new interview this week that Biden administration staff pressured his company into censoring COVID-19 posts and memes.
โThese people from the Biden administration would call up our team and … scream at them and curse,โ the Facebook founder said during a Friday appearance of the โJoe Rogan Experience.โ
Zuckerberg said that White House officials became the โmost extremeโ about targeting certain posts โwhen they were trying to roll out the vaccine programโ in 2021.
โWhile theyโre trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who was basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true,โ Zuckerberg told Rogan.
โThey basically pushed us and said, โanything that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.โโ
Recalling what he told White House officials, Zuckerberg said, โI was just like, โwell, weโre just not going to do that.โโ
The two most popular COVID-19 vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna, are now mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to include warnings about possible side effects such as myocarditis and pericarditis, two types of heart inflammationโnamely in younger males.
โIโm generally pretty pro-vaccine. I think on the balance, the vaccines are more positive than negative,โ he told Rogan.
Zuckerberg said that at first, he was โsympatheticโ to removing certain posts on Facebook โat the beginning of COVID.โ The situation soon changed.
โWhen it went from โtwo weeks to flatten the curve,โ in the beginning it was, โThere werenโt enough masks,โ โmasks arenโt that important,โ to then itโs โOh, now you have to wear a mask.โ Everything was shifting around. It just became really difficult to … follow,โ he said.
โThey wanted us to take down this meme of Leonardo Dicaprio looking at a TV talking about in how, ten years from now or something, youโre gonna see an ad that says if you took a COVID vaccine, youโre eligible … for paymentโa sort of class action lawsuit-type meme.โ
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