Zucker claims he was pressured to violate 1st Amendment rights of users by Biden, but was too spineless to stand up for human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humour and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn\u2019t agree,\u201d he said in a letter to Jim Jordan, the head of the US House of Representatives<\/a> judiciary committee. \u201cI believe the government pressure was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the pandemic, Facebook<\/a> added misinformation alerts to users when they commented on or liked posts that were judged to contain false information about Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n