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I censored Biden family’s corruption, other unfavourable stories on Facebook after FBI, White House pressure: Mark Zuckerberg

“I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that…we wouldn’t make today,” said Mr Zuckerberg.

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has itted that Facebook censored a story exposing U.S. President Joe Biden’s family’s alleged corruption after being pressured by the White House and the FBI.

In a letter dated August 26 addressed to Republican Jim Jordan, House judiciary committee chair, circulated on social media, Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook “demoted” a story exposing Mr Biden’s family corruption due to an earlier warning on potential Russian disinformation from the FBI.

“In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead-up to the 2020 election. That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply,” Mr Zuckerberg said in the letter.

The Facebook czar added, “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story. 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 U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.”

The Meta chief also said Facebook changed its enforcement of COVID-19-related content after Mr Biden’s goverment pressured them to censor content related to the global pandemic.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden istration, 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,” Mr Zuckerberg explained. “Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.”

“I believe the government pressure was wrong,” Mr Zuckerberg stressed, “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.”

The Meta boss told “our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any istration in either direction and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

However, Mr Zuckerberg said he would not donate to election infrastructure this year because he wants to stay neutral.

Mr Biden’s government and the FBI have not responded to Mr Zuckerberg’s claims.

https://gazettengr.com/i-censored-biden-familys-corruption-other-unfavourable-stories-on-facebook-after-fbi-white-house-pressure-mark-zuckerberg/

Hmm fact is coming out small small. Mark zukerberg must be sent to prison

Democracy isn't under threat since it a pressure from White House and not Aso Rock


That's a saner clime with no Dictator at the helm of affairs

I censored Biden family's corruption, other unfavourable stories on Facebook after FBI, White House pressure: Mark Zuckerberg


https://gazettengr.com/i-censored-biden-familys-corruption-other-unfavourable-stories-on-facebook-after-fbi-white-house-pressure-mark-zuckerberg/

press9jatv:
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and Instagram says he regrets working with the Biden-Harris istration to censor information online during the Coronavirus era.

We know that one day the truth about the conspiracy and manipulation that removed Trump and installed Biden will come to the open.

That day has finally come, more of these revelation will come pouring down like rain

Trump will certainly win this election come November 2024

Justnation:






We know that one day the truth about the conspiracy and manipulation that removed Trump and installed Biden will come to the open.

That day has finally come, more of these revelation will come pouring down like rain

Trump will certainly win this election come November 2024

yes soo. Truths can’t be hidden for long

Mark knows if Trump wins, otilo. E don be for Facebook!

Revelations!

Even the so called Liberal democracies like the US are not also free from tyranny.

This is an interesting information coming at a time of decision in the United states. God bless America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK5l-KiuJ8k

The born hypocrite/ US govt will come to Africa to shout of freedom of speech

that is what Demon-crats are good at censorship, they intend to do same with rumble.

It's expected.

Very shameful... More like what Africans, especially Nigeria's APC would have done or are still doing.

That definitely Tinubu's style... No cap

The truth has started coming out little by little

Of course he would

Interesting...

Wow. Democracy in the gutter. If the so called democrats could go to the extend of assassinating their opponent to retain the white house, what else can't they do? Interesting days ahead.

press9jatv:
Hmm fact is coming out small small. Mark zukerberg must be sent to prison

Why ?

Assuming it was an unfavourable story about an African nation now the CNN would have been recycling the story every 30 minutes so as to give it very wide coverage

They're more corrupt

Hypocrite
Because Biden is not running again
Shame

I always suspected it

These are the people Nigerians like to tag and petition to come save them from 9ja leaders

Like this clown Feminist Chimamanda

https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2023/04/chimamanda-adichie-open-letter-president-biden/673652/

Not only in Nigeria

Now we know that the so called progressive movement is a scam, globally.

Nawaoh saner climes have gone insane.....APC will use this template to suppress opposition after the biggest democracy in the world is doing it..but they won't see the good things US government has done and is still doing to keep USA on top of the world for decades

gracealonev:
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Oya weyrey ni? What is the meaning of your daft post?

Why would government ask u to censor the truth and u comply?