Mark Zuckerberg: The Biden Administration 'Screamed and Cursed' at My Employees to Censor Covid Content

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc., appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday, discussing Meta’s interactions with the Biden administration during the covid years and his recent decision to end the Meta fact-checking program.

Zuckerberg’s recent decision to end the Meta fact-checking program was also discussed. Zuck is just one of several tech titans who appear to have shifted to the right to side with the emerging Trump, right-wing, tech-focused movement that supports free speech, cryptocurrency and innovation.

During the conversation, Zuckerberg alleged that the Biden administration attempted to pressure Meta into censoring anyone who spoke out against the covid vaccines, an accusation that the White House has denied.

“When the Biden administration was trying to roll out the vaccines they tried to censor anyone who tried to argue against it,” Zuckerberg said. “They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, true. They said that anything saying that vaccines had side effects, we needed to take down. I said that we’re clearly not going to do that.”

Zuckerberg went on to allege that the Biden administration called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.

According to Zuckerberg, when he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.

“It was brutal,” Zuckerberg said.

“We had organizations looking into us that weren’t even involved in Social Media,” Zuckerberg explained. “We had the CFPB looking after us. I didn’t even know what that is. It’s some financial institution that Elizabeth Warren set up. We’re not a bank, what does Meta have to do with this? They came up with some theory and were trying really hard to make it work.

“I don’t know how this stuff works — is it a directive? A quiet consensus? It’s tough to be at the other end of that. The US Government should be defending its companies, not at the tip of the spear attacking its companies. The EU has fined tech companies more than $30B over the last 10-20 years. This is a EU wide policy for how they want to deal with tech, it’s kind of like a tariff.”

Zuckerberg explained that the US Government led the attacks against their own companies which gave permission for the EU and other countries to go after US companies as well.

He said “I think that the American tech industry is a bright spot in the US economy, it’s a strategic advantage, and it should be part of the US’ strategy going forward to defend that.”

Later in the conversation, Zuckerberg praised former President Donald Trump for hisدارة الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية, suggesting that Trump was more concerned with the country’s success than anything else.

“I think he just wants the US to win,” Zuckerberg said of Trump.

“At least in the US we have rule of law, you get your day in court, and we usually win, but other countries don’t have that. If the US wants to remain strong, the US has to have a role in defending their tech.”

And on the subject of sunsetting META’s fact checking program, Zuck said he will soon integrate a Community Notes style system.

“What Twitter and X have done with Community Notes I think is a better program. Rather than having a small amount of fact checkers you get the whole community to weigh in. You’re showing more information, not less. You’re not using the fact check as a signal to show less, you’re using the community note to provide real context and show additional information. I think that that’s better.”