Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the Meta Connect event on September 25, 2024 in Menlo Park, California.
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Yuan CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in an interview podcast The release on Friday said his company was under pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about the side effects of the coronavirus vaccine.
In a conversation that lasted about three hours, Zuckerberg told Rogan that he was “very supportive of the vaccine rollout” in general and that the vaccine had “more positives than negatives.”
“But I think at the same time that they’re trying to push the plan forward, they’re also trying to censor anyone who is basically opposed to the plan,” Zuckerberg said.
Representatives for the Biden administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Days earlier, Meta said it would no longer rely on third parties to fact-check posts on its widely used app, instead turning to community annotations to let users add comments about authenticity. The strategy brings Meta more closely in line with X, whose owner Elon Musk has advised President-elect Donald Trump and is a major backer of his campaign.
It’s the latest in a series of announcements and comments since Trump’s election that appear to be aimed at appeasing the incoming president. Last week, Meta replaced global affairs president Nick Clegg with current vice president for policy Joel Kaplan, a former Republican staffer.
Meta is one of several large tech companies to announce a $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration. nbc news reported.
Zuckerberg has criticized the Biden administration’s handling of COVID-19 content in the past.
In an August letter to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said the government was “pressuring Meta” to “review” Covid-19 content, adding that he was concerned about the company’s response to those requests. I regret some of the decisions I made.
“They put a lot of pressure on us to remove things that were true,” Zuckerberg told Rogen. “They basically pressured us to say, you know, anything that said the vaccine might have side effects, You basically need to cancel.”
Zuckerberg did not specify who in the White House made the requests, saying: “I was not directly involved in those conversations.” But he said the company responded by not removing content that was “indisputably true.”
Headache, fatigue, muscle aches, nausea and fever are the most common side effects in 2021, FDA says Johnson & Johnson Single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. Globally, COVID-19 vaccines credit During the epidemic, tens of millions of lives are saved every year.
On another matter, Zuckerberg said the U.S. government has not done enough to protect its technology industry, leaving overseas regulators with too much power. He said that the EU has fined technology companies more than US$30 billion in the past 20 years.
“One of the things that I’m optimistic about about President Trump is I think he just wants America to win,” Zuckerberg said.
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