Mark Zuckerberg just revealed how the staff of outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden will behave if they don't like what was being posted in social media. He said that they would "scream" and "curse" at his executives at Meta over censoring Facebook’s users. This became more evident as Meta took on a more MAGA-friendly persona following incoming President Donald Trump’s win.
In a new episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" released last 10 January, the Facebook founder said the Biden administration became "the most extreme" about censoring certain posts "when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program."
"While they're trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who was basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true," Zuckerberg told Rogan.
Zuckerberg said the administration "basically pushed us and said anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down. And I was just like 'We're not gonna do that. We're clearly not gonna do that.'"
The Meta CEO recently announced that Facebook would be doing away with fact checkers on the platform, because "too much harmless content gets censored" and that "a program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor."
Zuckerberg told Rogan that specific events from the "last 10 years"—Trump's first election victory, Brexit, and COVID—led to "massive institutional pressure to start censoring content on ideological grounds."
He said he was "sympathetic" to keeping false information off of Facebook "at the beginning of COVID," but things changed.
"When it went from 'two weeks to flatten the curve,' in the beginning it was, 'There weren't enough masks,' 'masks aren’t that important,' to then it's 'Oh, no you have to wear a mask.' Everything was shifting around. It just became really difficult to kind of follow," he said.
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