CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Monday expressed support for President Joe Biden’s administration’s efforts to pressure tech giant Meta to censor content.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan:joe rogan experienceOn Friday, Biden administration officials allegedly “yelled” and “abused” their own employees to remove posts that contained “true” and humorous content. Acosta defended the administration’s actions on “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta,” saying the White House’s attempts to influence Mehta to remove what he called “trash” from his platform were justified. suggested that. (Related: Supreme Court sides with Biden administration in landmark censorship case)
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“He’s complaining about the Biden administration and calling for some of this coronavirus misinformation to be removed from their platforms,” Acosta said. “I mean, that’s kind of what the White House should do, right? I mean, tell people to remove this garbage from their platforms, if they can, as best they can.”
A document released in July 2023 by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan shows that the Biden administration is pressuring Facebook to censor content about the coronavirus that it deems misinformation. Ta. Facebook executives also said they felt they were in a “knife fight” with Biden. White House regarding censorship of new coronavirus infection, According to In response to a House Judiciary Committee report released in May.
“Basically, we got to this point and said, ‘No, we’re not going to do that, we’re not going to remove anything that’s true. That’s ridiculous,'” Zuckerberg said Friday. told Mr. Logan. “They should take down this meme that says Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be watching TV and in 10 years or whatever, he’s going to see an ad that says, ‘Okay, you get the COVID vaccine.’ It’s like a class action lawsuit type of meme that says, “I’m entitled to this kind of payment, etc.” And they’re like, ‘No, we have to take it down.’ ”
“We just said, ‘No, we’re not going to take away the humor or the satire. We’re not going to take away the truth.'” And at some point, I don’t know, we reversed a little bit. I think so,” he added. “I mean, Biden, at the time, he made some kind of statement at one point, I don’t know if it was in a press conference or to journalists, where he basically said, ‘These guys are people. And it was like, I don’t know. And so, like, different agencies and departments of the government started investigating and going after our company. It was.”
biden accused In July 2021, Facebook was “murdered” for failing to suppress misinformation about the new coronavirus.
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