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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/users/luckytran/statuses/113034703298217316">Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 07:05:53 JST</a><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran" title="luckytran@med-mastodon.com"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/28159-48-20221116063634.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:</a></section><article><p>NEWS: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just sent a letter to Congress revealing that the Biden Administration repeatedly pressured his teams to censor certain COVID-19 content. </p><p>"I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021/index.html</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3577941#notice-7019941">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-28T07:05:53+09:00" title="Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 07:05:53 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113034703298217316" rel="external" title="Sent from med-mastodon.com via ActivityPub">med-mastodon.com</a></span></span><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113034703298217316">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3090928">In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction - and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/113/034/696/051/233/591/original/68b68ecc1144f393.jpeg" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/113/034/696/051/233/591/original/68b68ecc1144f393.jpeg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3090929">Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contributions I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure. The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the resources they needed to help people vote safely during a global pandemic. I made these contributions through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. They were designed to be non-partisan --spread across urban, rural, and suburban communities. Still, despite the analyses I've seen showing otherwise, I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over the other. My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another - or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don't plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.
Respectfully,
/s/ Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Chairman &amp; CEO
Meta Platforms, Inc.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/113/034/696/061/797/538/original/09645425dce4b16a.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/113/034/696/061/797/538/original/09645425dce4b16a.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: media.cnn.com</div><h5><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021/index.html">Mark Zuckerberg says Meta was ‘pressured’ by Biden administration to censor Covid-related content in 2021 | CNN Business</a></h5><div> from <span>Colin McCullogh</span></div></header><div>Zuckerberg in his letter to the judiciary committee said the pressure he felt in 2021 was “wrong” and he came to “regret” that his company was not more outspoken.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 07:05:53 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:
NEWS: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just sent a letter to Congress revealing that the Biden Administration repeatedly pressured his teams to censor certain COVID-19 content.
"I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021/index.html
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