… claiming that its members “screamed” and “cussed” at Meta Platforms Inc. employees. and thus exerted pressure on the company during discussions on how to moderate content related to the Covid-19 pandemic during its duration.
“It was brutal,” Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, said during his nearly 3-hour appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Friday, according to Bloomberg.
He said his company was under tremendous pressure from the Biden administration to remove content related to the side effects of Covid vaccines.
At the beginning of the three-hour conversation, Zuckerberg told Rogan that he was “generally in favor of introducing vaccines” and that, if asked, “they are more beneficial than harmful.”
“But I think that while they were trying to promote that program, they were also trying to censor anyone who opposed it,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg said the administration exceeded its requests to remove posts about the pandemic, including satire, sowing mistrust among voters. He previously wrote about those complaints in a letter to Congress last August.
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Rogan, in response to Zuckerberg’s claims, commented that the Biden administration’s approach to the pandemic convinced many people of the reality as it describes it, at any cost (“red-pilled” many people – the term “red-pill” was derived from the movie “The Matrix “, in which the choice to take the red pill instead of the blue one offers the possibility of insight and facing the real reality in relation to the simulation in which the people in the film are forced to live, in the background of which there is a constant violent struggle for power between robots and humans – the concept is, how is it wrote The Atlantic, changed its meaning and no longer means the possibility of choice, but the imposition of a certain image of the state of affairs from the outside and, among other things, has become a synonym for, as stated, the aggressive attitude of the right-wing movement in the style of “we will make you aware of our reality , whether you like it or not”, op.a.).
“The American government should defend its companies, and not be the tip of the spear that attacks its companies,” Zuckerberg asserted, reports Jutarnji list.
In contrast, the Facebook founder said he was “optimistic” about Donald Trump entering the White House.
“I think he just wants America to win,” Zuckerberg said.
The Meta CEO has been repositioning his company to be more Trump-friendly in recent months, and recently dined with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Florida.
The podcast was released just days after Meta announced its decision to remove some of its content moderation and third-party fact-checking safeguards in the US. The company also changed its policies related to content and hate speech, to ease restrictions on users who criticize migrants, transgender and non-binary people.
Meta also announced Friday that it is scrapping many of its internal training and hiring criteria in an effort to make its workforce more diverse, Bloomberg reports.
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