Well, it’s about time, is all that I can say. Mark Zuckerberg has finally admitted that the Harris-Biden caliphate pressured him to censor messages, though true, they didn’t like. He now says he regrets it, but I have my doubts about that. Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan that senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook to censor posts about COVID-19 that they wanted to keep the voters in the dark about.
Zuckerberg allegedly told Jordan that Facebook should not fold like a cheap road map when an administration of either party wants to censor information. It’s funny how he reached that conclusion just as the Republicans are poised to take back the Oval Office. Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook is “ready to push back if something like this happens again.”
Zuckerberg said:
“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.”
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
In addition, Zuckerberg also admitted that Facebook was wrong to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. That is mighty big of him considering it became public months ago, so he really isn’t confessing to a thing.
Zuckerberg was also very late in admitting to this in an attempt to execute a CYA moment:
“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply. It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”
Zuckerberg wrote that the platform “no longer temporarily demotes things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.”
The Supreme Court ruled in June that states and individual plaintiffs who challenged the Biden administration’s efforts to censor speech did not have standing because they could not establish a clear link between the government’s pressure and the platform’s actions.
“The plaintiffs rely on allegations of past Government censorship as evidence that future censorship is likely,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the Murthy v. Missouri majority opinion. “But they fail, by and large, to link their past social-media restrictions to the defendants’ communications with the platforms. Thus, the events of the past do little to help any of the plaintiffs establish standing to seek an injunction to prevent future harms.”
Documents obtained from the lawsuit revealed the extent of the government’s efforts, which included the Center for Disease Control (CDC) flagging posts for removal and the White House asking companies to censor specific individuals over vaccine-related speech, including Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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