Zuckerberg admits that Meta shouldn’t have censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, but gave in

Back in the Fall of 2020, there was a story that could potentially turn upside down the then-presidential elections – it was a scandal about Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden (one of the candidates for the White House).

The scandal occurred after a solid half year of COVID-related restrictions, measures, and pandemic-related policies: something that was also not allowed to comment on Meta freely.

Now, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that it was wrong of him and Meta to suppress content about these two issues on Facebook and Instagram.

Zuck has sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), where he writes that “senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021.

He also says that these senior officials from the Biden administration “expressed a lot of frustration” with Meta’s teams, when they (allegedly) objected at first to go on and censor “certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire”.

Ultimately, it was Meta’s decision and they caved in, as Zuck explains:

– Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to the Committee on the Judiciary, August 2024

In the letter, Zuckerberg also stated that the FBI has “warned” Meta about “a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election”.
He’s talking, of course, about the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Meta “sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply”. He also added:

– Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to the Committee on the Judiciary, August 2024