Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid content

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed regret over what he claims was “pressure from the US government” to censor Covid-19 content on Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic.

In a letter to Jim Jordan, head of the US House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg stated that senior White House officials in Joe Biden’s administration “repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor certain Covid-19 content,” including humour and satire, and expressed frustration when the company did not comply.