X CEO Elon Musk has branded the revelations that the Biden administration put pressure on Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, to censor COVID misinformation as a ‘First Amendment violation.’
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee’s chairman Jim Jordan, which was published last night, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden administration was ‘wrong’ to demand Facebook censor what they deemed ‘COVID misinformation’ during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg, 40, promised that Meta fight back against any future attempts at censorship and also admitted the company had ‘demoted’ stories about Hunter Biden‘s laptop.
He wrote that 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’.
Elon Musk, a self-described free speech absolutist, said the episode ‘sounds like a First Amendment violation’, in a post to X, his social media platform.
He later said on X: ‘Just want to reiterate that this platform really is meant to support all viewpoints within the bounds of the laws of countries, even those of people with whom I vehemently disagree and personally dislike.
‘If that doesn’t seem to be happening, please yell at me (ideally on X).’
Zuckerberg said the White House’s pressure ‘was wrong’ and says he regrets ‘that we were not more outspoken about it’.
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These fascist scumbags trying to censor free speech and control the dialogue is bad enough, but what they were trying to suppress was the TRUTH, so that their lies can be unchallenged. This is nothing but government propaganda. This is fascism, suppressing the truth while allowing lies to propagate, which they used to control human behavior.