Mark Zuckerberg EXPOSES that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor posts on vaccine side effects.

Bloomberg - Mark Zuckerberg criticized the Biden administration during a conversation with podcaster Joe Rogan, claiming the administration would “scream” and “curse” at Meta Platforms Inc. employees amid discussions about how to moderate content related to Covid-19 during the pandemic.

“It was brutal,” Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive officer, said during his nearly 3-hour-long episode of The Joe Rogan Experience published on Friday. Zuckerberg said the administration overstepped in its requests to take down posts about the pandemic, including satire, sowing distrust among the electorate. He previously wrote about these complaints in a letter to Congress in August.

Rogan, in response, said the Biden administration’s approach to the pandemic “red-pilled” many people.

“The US government should be defending its companies, not be at the tip of the spear attacking its companies,” Zuckerberg said. In contrast, the Facebook founder said he’s “optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump taking the White House.

“I think he just wants America to win,” Zuckerberg said. The Meta CEO has been repositioning his company to be more Trump-friendly in recent months, and recently had dinner with the President-elect at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Florida.

The Biden administration didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The podcast was released just days after Meta announced its decision to remove guardrails around content moderation, third-party fact-checking in the US and changed its hateful conduct policies to allow more leniency to users criticizing immigrants, transgender and nonbinary people. Meta also announced Friday that it was killing many of its internal training and hiring efforts aimed at making its workforce more diverse.

Source - "They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true. They basically pushed us and said anything that says vaccines might have side effects, you need to take down."