Mark Zuckerberg’s Revelations About Government Censorship & Social Media

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Entertainment On this episode of The Born Primitive Podcast Bear and Tony discuss how Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently penned a letter to the House Judiciary Committee outlining his regrets about his platforms’ response to COVID-19. Written in response to an investigation into content moderation online Zuckerberg explained that they faced pressure from the White House regarding censorship. He wrote “I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.” He also expressed regrets for suppressing news related to the story involving information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop stating “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation and in retrospect we shouldn’t have demoted the story." Check Born Primitive: https://bornprimitive.com/ Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/bornprimitive Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57tLOxYrQg612Hi7ei1WOB?si=a32d8fdc05244780 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-born-primitive-podcast/id1701862625 PRODUCED BY IRONCLAD

On this episode of The Born Primitive Podcast, Bear and Tony discuss how Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently penned a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, outlining his regrets about his platforms’ response to COVID-19.

Written in response to an investigation into content moderation online, Zuckerberg explained that they faced pressure from the White House regarding censorship. He wrote, “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

He also expressed regrets for suppressing news related to the story involving information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, stating, “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story."

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