The officials ‘expressed a lot of frustration’ when the company did not agree, he said.
Senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some Covid-19 content during the pandemic, Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has said.
The officials “expressed a lot of frustration” when the company did not agree, he said in the letter. “Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present.”
That is after it moved in April 2020 — just as the virus had led to global shutdowns and radical changes in everyday life — to warn users who shared misinformation about Covid-19. He sent Monday’s letter to the House Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Jim Jordan, is a long-time Trump ally.
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