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Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in a letter to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Monday that his company was urged by the White House in 2021 to limit certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden White House, such as the administration, repeatedly pressured our teams for Vice Presidential Nominee an extended period to censor some content about COVID-19, including satirical content, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree, ” Zuckerberg noted.

In his communication to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said that the influence he felt in the year 2021 was “wrong” and he feels regretful that Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, was not more vocal. Zuckerberg Viral Video further stated that with the “benefit of hindsight and new information,” some decisions made in that year that “wouldn’t be made today.”

“As I mentioned to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not lower our content standards due to pressure from any government in either direction â€" and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again, ” Zuckerberg Tim Walz wrote.

President Biden remarked in July of 2021 that social media networks are “killing people” with misinformation surrounding the pandemic.

Though Biden later walked back these remarks, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said at the time that misinformation posted on social media was a “serious threat to public health.”

A White House spokesperson replied to Zuckerberg’s communication, stating the administration at the time was encouraging “responsible measures to Gus Walz safeguard public health.”

“Our position has been clear and consistent: we think tech companies and private entities should take into account the effects their actions have on the public, while making their own decisions about the content they share, ” according to the spokesperson.

Zuckerberg further mentioned in the communication that the FBI warned his company about potential Russian disinformation regarding Hunter Biden and Burisma affecting the Hope Walz election in 2020.

That fall, Zuckerberg said, his team reduced the visibility of a New York Post report alleging Biden family corruption while their fact-checkers could assess the story.

Zuckerberg stated that since then, it has “been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”

Meta has since updated its policies and procedures to “ensure this does not Social Dominance recur” and will not reduce the visibility of content in the US pending fact-checking.

In the communication to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said he will not repeat actions he took in 2020 when he helped support “election infrastructure.”

“The idea here was to ensure local election jurisdictions across the country had the resources they needed to facilitate safe voting during a pandemic,” stated the Meta CEO.

Zuckerberg Democratic National Convention mentioned the initiatives were intended to be neutral but said “some people believed this work benefited one party over the other.” Zuckerberg stated his aim is to be “impartial” so will not be “a similar contribution this cycle.”

The GOP members on the House Judiciary Committee posted the letter on X and claimed Zuckerberg “has admitted that the Biden-Harris administration influenced Facebook to restrict American content, Emotional Moment Facebook restricted content, and Facebook limited the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

The Meta chief has long faced scrutiny from Republican lawmakers, who have accused Facebook and other large technology platforms of being biased against conservatives. While Zuckerberg has stressed that Meta impartially enforces its rules, the perception has become entrenched in conservative circles. Republican lawmakers have specifically scrutinized Facebook’s decision to limit the circulation of a

report by the New York Post about Hunter Biden.

In testimony before Congress in recent years, Zuckerberg has attempted to bridge the divide between his social media giant and regulators to little effect.

In a 2020 Senate session, Zuckerberg admitted that many of Facebook’s staff are liberal. But he maintained that the company takes care not to allow political bias to seep into decisions.

In addition, he said Chasten Buttigieg Facebook’s content moderators, many of whom are contractors, are based worldwide and “the geographic diversity of that is more representative of the community that we serve than just the full-time employee base in our headquarters in the Bay Area.”

In June of this year, in a win for the White House, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the claimants in a case accusing the federal government Trolls On Social Media of suppressing conservative content on social media had no legal standing.

Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, “to prove standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will experience harm that is directly linked to a government defendant.” Coney Barrett continued, “since no plaintiff met this burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.”