Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration senior officials had pressured the company to censor COVID-19 content amid the pandemic, Reuters’ Gnaneshwar Rajan reports, citing a letter the CEO sent to the judiciary committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including 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. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret we were not more outspoken about it,” he wrote. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
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