White House put pressure on us"- Zuckerberg admits

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that the US officials pressured Facebook to censor certain content related to Covid-19 during the pandemic. “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,” Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee. He added that he regrets some of the decisions taken in relation to the US government’s requests. “I think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today,” he said, without elaborating.
Zuckerberg’s letter was posted on the Committee’s Facebook page and on its X social media account on Monday. Responding to Zuckerberg’s comment, the White House stated that “when confronted with a deadly pandemic, this Administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety.” “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,” the statement further reads. It should be noted that in the 2020 US presidential election campaign, President Joe Biden accused Facebook of “killing people” by allowing disinformation about COVID vaccines to be posted on its platform.