Mark Zuckerberg: Covid censorship was wrong and I wish I'd fought it (telegraph.co.uk)
Mark Zuckerberg: Covid censorship was wrong and I wish I’d fought it
Facebook founder claims White House ‘repeatedly pressured’ his social media giant to censor posts
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Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.
In a letter to a US committee investigating online content moderation, Mr Zuckerberg said senior White House officials “repeatedly pressured” the company after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
He said that Facebook “made some choices” that it would not have made today.
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“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.
“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.”
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" It also deleted posts criticising the Covid vaccine, or suggesting that
Covid was developed in a Chinese laboratory, a theory that has since become supported by some mainstream scientists and government agencies. "
" Mr Zuckerberg also said Facebook was wrong to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden, Mr Biden’s son, which revealed that
Hunter had offered business contacts access to his father when he was vice president. "
Zuckerberg myöntää että tuli tehtyä vähän tyhmästi kun sensuroitiin facebookissa sekä Instagrammissa useammassa tapauksessa. Toivon todella että tämä valon löytäminen on nyt oikeasti rehellistä eikä vain teeskentelyä. Sille olisi nyt aikalailla tarvetta.