Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content
by Mark Sweney from on (#6Q94N)
Meta boss regrets bowing to government power and says he would not make the same choices today
The Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has said he regrets bowing to what he claims was pressure from the US government to censor posts about Covid on Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg said senior White House officials in Joe Biden's administration repeatedly pressured" Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to censor certain Covid-19 content" during the pandemic.
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