Mark Zuckerberg Pushes Biden To Remove Posts On Vaccines

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan at A Podcast His company was pressured by the Biden administration to remove content about the side effects of Covid vaccines, he said on Friday.

At the start of the three-hour conversation, Zuckerberg told Rogan that he was generally “very good at getting vaccines out” and that they were “more positive than negative.”

“But I think they’re trying to push that program, they’re basically trying to censor anyone who argues against it,” Zuckerberg said.

A representative for the Biden administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The comments come days after Meta said it would stop relying on third parties to check facts posted on its widely used apps, and instead turn to community notes to let users add feedback about veracity. The strategy makes it even more meta with X. His wife, Elon Musk, advised President-elect Donald Trump and was a major supporter of his campaign.

It’s the latest in a series of ads and comments following Trump’s election that appear to be aimed at flattering the incoming president. Last week, Meta replaced Nick Clegg, president of international affairs, with Joel Kaplan, the company’s vice president of policy and a former Republican Party staffer.

Meta was one of several large tech companies to announce a $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration. NBC News He reported.

President Biden announced a meta-policy shift in fact-checking during Friday’s press conference.

“The idea that a billionaire can buy something and say, by the way, from now on, we don’t want to check anything, and you know, millions of people go online and read these things.” It’s — I think it’s really embarrassing anyway,” Biden said.

Zuckerberg has previously criticized the Biden administration’s handling of Vivid-related content.

In a letter to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in August, Zuckerberg said the administration was “concerned” that Meta would “censor” Covid-19 content and regretted some of the decisions the company made following those requests.

“And they really pushed us to take down the things that were really true,” Zuckerberg told Rogan.

Zuckerberg did not say who made the request from the White House, saying, “I was not directly involved in those conversations.” But the company’s response was that it would not take down the content, which it said was “unrealistically true”.

Food and Drug Administration Headache, fatigue, muscle aches, nausea and fever are the most common side effects, according to 2021. Johnson and Johnson A single-shot covid vaccine. Globally, they are the covid vaccines. Acknowledged. Saving tens of millions of lives every year during epidemics.

In another case, Zuckerberg said the U.S. government is not doing enough to protect the tech industry, and that too much power has fallen into the hands of outside regulators. The European Union has fined tech companies more than $30 billion over the past 20 years.

“I think one of the things I’m optimistic about with President Trump is that he just wants America to win,” Zuckerberg said.

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