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Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content



Meta boss regrets bowing to government power and says he would not make the same choices todayThe Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said he regrets bowing to what he claims was pressure from the US government to censor posts about Covid on Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic.Zuckerberg said senior White House officials in Joe Biden’s administration “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor certain Covid-19 content” during the pandemic. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-covid-19-content

Author : Mark Sweney

Publish date : 2024-08-27 11:48:59

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