CEO and founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, listens to questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 31, 2024. © Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for USA TODAY / USA TODAY NETWORK
(Washington, DC) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter on Monday to the House Judiciary Committee, admitted that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans. He said the administration leaned on the social media company to censor COVID-19 content, and acknowledged that it was wrong to block the coverage of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.
In the letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Representative Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg wrote that “Senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta to censor content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021, and regrets complying with certain demands.
Zuckerberg assured Jordan that Meta has put policies in place to ensure that similar censorship of stories doesn’t happen again.
