Source: Meta CEO admits Biden-Harris admin pressured company to censor Americans | Fox Business
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content.
Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content moderation on online platforms.
Along with documents, the Meta CEO said, the company has provided a dozen employees to be available for transcribed interviews, stressing Meta’s cooperation with the investigation.
“There’s a lot of talk right now around how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Our platforms are for everyone – we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way. As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.”
He told Jordan that in 2021, “senior officials” from the Biden administration and White House “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.”
When Facebook did not agree with the censorship, Zuckerberg said, the Biden administration expressed a lot of frustration.
“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,” Zuckerberg wrote. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.”
Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格在周一的一封信中承认，他的公司脸书受到拜登-哈里斯政府的压力，要求审查美国人，特别是有关 COVID-19 的内容。 扎克伯格在给众议院司法委员会主席、俄亥俄州共和党人吉姆·乔丹的一封信中承认了这一点，一年多前，他向该委员会提供了数千份文件，作为其对在线平台内容审核调查的一部分。 Meta 首席执行官表示，除了文件外，该公司还提供了十几名员工接受采访录音，并强调 Meta 会配合调查。 扎克伯格写道：“现在有很多关于美国政府如何与 Meta 这样的公司互动的讨论，我想明确我们的立场。我们的平台面对所有人——我们致力于促进言论并帮助人们以安全可靠的方式进行联系。作为其中的一部分，我们经常听到世界各地政府和其他人对公共话语和公共安全存在各种担忧。” 他告诉乔丹，2021 年，拜登政府和白宫的“高级官员”“数月来不断向我们的团队施压，要求其审查某些 COVID-19 内容，包括幽默和讽刺内容”。 扎克伯格说，当脸书不同意审查制度时，拜登政府表达非常懊恼。 扎克伯格写道：“最终，是否删除内容是我们的决定，我们拥有我们的决定权，包括在这种压力下我们对执行措施做出的与 COVID-19 相关的改变。” “我认为政府的压力是错误的，我很遗憾我们没有对此更加直言不讳。“
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