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Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee has alleged that the BidenHarris administration repeatedly pressurised Metas teams to censor posts related to CovidHe further said that the platform had to make some changes that with the benefit of hindsight and new information they wont make today Zuckerberg also said he regrets not being more outspoken about itIn 2021 senior officials from the Biden Administration including the White House repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID19 content including humor and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didnt agree Ultimately it was our decision whether or not to take content down and we own our decisions including COVID19related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure Zuckerberg said in the letterI believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it I also think we made some choices that with the benefit of hindsight and new information we wouldnt make today Like I said to our teams at the time I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction and were ready to push back if something like this happens again he addedThe House Committee on the Judiciary of the Republican Party informed about the Meta CEOs letter on social media platform XMark Zuckerberg just admitted three things 1 BidenHarris Admin pressured Facebook to censor Americans 2 Facebook censored Americans 3 Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story Big win for free speech the post readZuckerberg recalled another episode in the letter in which he alleged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI warned Meta about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the leadup to the 2020 electionFollowing this Meta demoted a story on corruption allegations involving Joe Bidens family but Meta CEO claims that the reporting was not Russian disinformation and the story shouldnt have been demotedThat fall when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving thenDemocratic presidential nominee Joe Bidens family we sent that story to factcheckers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply Its since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation and in retrospect we shouldnt have demoted the story he statedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever