On an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" released Friday, painted a picture of Biden administration staff during requests to remove certain content from the .
"Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse," Zuckerberg told podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan. "It just got to this point where we were like, 'No, we're not gonna, we're not gonna take down things that are true. That's ridiculous.'"
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to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said that the White House “repeatedly pressured” Facebook to remove “certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire.”
Zuckerberg said Facebook, which is owned by Meta, acquiesced at times, while suggesting that different decisions would be made going forward. He said the company "made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today."
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The White House responded at the time in a statement saying: “When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this Administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety. Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present.”
On Rogan's show, Zuckerberg said the administration had asked Facebook to remove from its platform a meme pointing at a TV screen advertising a class action lawsuit for people who once took the Covid vaccine.
"They're like, 'No, you have to take that down,'" Zuckerberg said, adding, "We said, 'No, we're not gonna, we're not to take down humor and satire. We're not gonna take down things that are, that are true.'"
That meme was filed by congressional Republicans in in 2023.
In that case, plaintiffs, which included Louisiana, Missouri and several Facebook users who had posts removed or downgraded, sought to bar government officials from communicating with social media companies.
The Supreme Court ultimately threw out the lawsuit in a 6-3 ruling, saying in part that there was plenty of evidence of platforms moderating content without government intervention.
“In fact, the platforms, acting independently, had strengthened their pre-existing content moderation policies before the government defendants got involved,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in her opinion.
Zuckerberg’s comments on Rogan's podcast come days after he announced that and replace it with a community-driven structure similar to the Community Notes system on X. He also announced that his platforms — Facebook and Instagram — would relax rules related to political content.
Zuckerberg is one of several tech moguls, , whose companies have to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.
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