(ReclaimingAmerica.net) – Revealing more proof of the Democrats’ crackdown on free speech and election interference, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently shared his admission and regrets about how Facebook handled censorship under pressure from the Biden-Harris administration.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg revealed that senior officials from the Biden-Harris administration had “repeatedly pressured” Facebook to suppress COVID-19 content, which they otherwise would not have.
See Zuckerberg’s letter down below.
The administration became frustrated when Facebook resisted. Zuckerberg emphasized that the platform should maintain its standards regardless of any government pressure.
“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg stated.
Looking back, he admitted that some decisions made at the time would not be repeated with what they know now.
He also acknowledged that Facebook wrongly censored a story from the New York Post about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
This happened after the FBI flagged “a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.”
At first, Facebook sent the story to fact-checkers and reduced its visibility while waiting for feedback.
“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg noted.
Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook has now changed its policy and no longer suppresses content in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checker reviews.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled on a related case, deciding that the states and individuals who challenged the Biden-Harris administration’s censorship efforts lacked standing.
The highest court said that challengers could not decisively link the government’s pressure to the platforms’ actions.
Writing for the majority in Murthy v. Missouri, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated, “The plaintiffs rely on allegations of past Government censorship as evidence that future censorship is likely. But they fail, by and large, to link their past social-media restrictions to the defendants’ communications with the platforms.”
Documents revealed in the lawsuit show how deeply the government tried to influence social media.
The CDC flagged posts for removal, and the White House asked platforms to censor specific individuals over vaccine-related statements, including public figures like Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
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