Mark Zuckerberg is giving political victories to Republicans ahead of the 2024 presidential elections, accepting years of GOP complaints about his company’s policies.
In recent times, Meta’s chief executive has made public statements clearly supporting the right-wing “censorship” statement and offered Donald Trump praise as an “ugly” He claimed that he wanted to appear “neutral” and neutral.
On Monday, Zuckerberg sent a letter to the powerful House Judiciary Committee, stating that the Biden administration had given Meta “pressure” to “censor” the material during pandemic diseases.
In 2021, senior officials of the Biden administration, including the White House, pressured our teams for several months to censor the specific content of COVID-19, including humor and humor, and when we did not agree. So our teams expressed their disappointment.
Zuckerberg added that the pressure he felt was “wrong” and he “regretted” that his company, Facebook, and Instagram’s parents were not very clear.
The letter was immediately made by Donald, who once again used it to promote the lie that the 2020 elections were stolen.
“Zuckerberg acknowledged that the White House pressed to suppress the Hunter Biden Laptop Story. In other words, the 2020 US presidential election was rigged,” he made his Truth social platforms on Tuesday morning. But Zuckerberg wrote after the scene came out.
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee also welcomed Zuckerberg’s letter, which posted a copy on social media on Monday and used it to attack President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamla Harris, who is now Democratic for the president. They are contesting as candidates. The letter was sent during the two-year investigation by the House Republicans into the moderation policies of the major social media networks.
Mark Zuckerberg confesses only three things: 1. The Biden-Hirus Admin ‘pressed’ to censor Americans on Facebook. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook strangles the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Big wins for an independent speech, “the committee wrote on X.
It is not uncommon for social media companies to re-evaluate their perspective on the moderation of content during elections, and some experts believe that companies may sometimes have done more than that in the 2020 cycle. –
But the decision to disclose such a letter to the House Judicial Committee is noteworthy. The committee is chaired by Ohio’s representative Jim Jordan, who repeatedly led the false rhetoric that the 2020 elections were stolen and celebrated the termination of educational institutions dedicated to investigating the electoral misconduct.
Zuckerberg’s decision to defy the White House’s efforts to flag Kovid’s misinformation as censorship came this summer despite a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court’s decision, which said that the federal government did not go ahead with the platform asking to eliminate potential misinformation.
But Zuckerberg’s letter went publicly in the hands of Republicans, who have long made false claims that social media platforms have joined liberal government officials to censor conservative voices. There are examples, as Zuckerberg has acknowledged, where the platforms reduce or reduce the spread of obvious lies about dangerous pandemic diseases or elections, such as wrong places in polling locations, though it is Trump and the Biden administration. It was under.
In recent years, platforms run by Zuckerberg and billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk have eliminated many guards created to reduce the spread of viral misinformation, which Trump’s January 6 attacks Also allowed to return after the ban.
Zuckerberg, who earlier donated more than $ 400 million to increase voting access to the United States, also told Jordan that he would not further support the election efforts after the Republican invasion, who argued The funds are sarcastically called “zuckerbucks”. “Biden helped win the key states of the battlefield.
“I know some people think that this work has benefited one party on the other,” he wrote. “My goal is to be neutral and not play a role in one or another way – or even play a role. So I do not intend to contribute similarly in this cycle.”
Since the COVID-19 pandemic disease eliminated local resources during the 2020 elections, private companies like Facebook stepped in to fill the treasury of election offices with these grants. During the epidemic diseases, mail with the voting explosion, which requires more resources than personally voting, was happily welcomed by counties across the country. But when Trump lost several key states and counties that took money, Republicans used it as a goat.
The decision to reduce funding was praised as the victory of Republicans, and the judiciary’s committee celebrated the move.
The head of the meta also took a step forward and told the committee that Hunter Biden.
The company’s decision to briefly restrict the sharing of the New York Post’s notorious October 2020 story on the POP was a mistake – they have already expressed regret over the decision.
Meta Cheif said, “It has been made clear that reporting was not Russian false information, and in the past, we should not reduce the story.”
But when the contents of the laptop that the post reported turned out to be authentic, according to the Justice Department, the New York Post reported in 2020 presented a false story that the Russian government simultaneously pushed forward. The false statement claims that Biden had pressured government officials in Ukraine “to dismiss a prosecutor who was investigating” Ukrainian gas company Besma, where his son was on the board.
Zuckerberg told Bloomberg, “It was awful seeing Trump celebrating after being shot in the face and raising his fist with the American flag.”
Taking simultaneously, remarks show Zuckerberg to Republicans before the olive branch and some political ammunition for the intellect. In the Bloomberg interview, Zuckerberg said that Meta has made changes to its platforms to reduce the amount of political content to consumers, though it is unclear what this definition meets.
Meta Cheif Zuckerberg said, “Our services will play a smaller role in this election than in the past.”