Jordan Daily – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Friday that the Biden administration coerced Facebook into censoring content around COVID-19 vaccines.
Zuckerberg made the statement at the Joe Rogan Podcast.
During the interview spanning several topics, Zuckerberg spoke about the issue of government censorship and noted, “This hit the most extreme. I’d say it was during the Biden Administration when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program. Now I’m generally pretty pro rolling out vaccines, I think on balance the vaccines are more positive than negative but I think that while they’re trying to push that program they also tried to censor anyone who was arguing against it”.
“They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true. I mean, they basically pushed us and said, ‘You know anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you need to take down’ and I was just like well we’re not going to do that'”, Zuckerberg added.
He said that people in the Biden Administration told him “to take down things that talk about vaccine side effects”.
Referring to the investigation and committee set up to look into the government censorship, Mark Zuckerberg said, “We produced all these documents and it’s all in the public domain. I mean these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and scream at them and curse”.
