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Pressured, as in asked them to do something, which they ignored. Possibly problematic, but the elephant in the room is Trump directly threatening to put Mark Zu

Pressured, as in asked them to do something, which they ignored. Possibly problematic, but the elephant in the room is Trump directly threatening to put Mark Zuckerberg in prison for life: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-election-book-00176639 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-el...

Schmerika 8mo ago
> asked them to do something, which they ignored. They certainly did not ignore the request [0] (which came at the same time as the FTC were suing Meta for monopoly). Hundreds of millions of posts were taken down or suppressed. 0 - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/biden-administration-repeatedly-pressured-meta-mark-zuckerberg-in-letter-6426079 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/biden-administration-repeate...
- nitwit005 8mo ago
  That article does say they ignored it: > In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
  - Schmerika 8mo ago
    You're misinterpreting that sentence. It's not that they never agreed. It's that sometimes they disagreed, and they got pressured harder when they did. Did you read the first two paragraphs? > In a letter to the US Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has alleged that the US government under Joe Biden "repeatedly pressured" Meta to censor certain content on its platforms. > In the letter addressed to US House of Representatives, Mr Zuckerberg said that the platform had to make some changes, that "with the benefit of hindsight and new information," they won't make today. He added that he regrets not being "more outspoken" about it. We know for a fact that Meta had removed over 20 million Corona posts by April 2021 alone [0]. Some of those were genuine misinformation - but a hell of a lot were legitimate and important questions from reputable sources. It's simply not reasonable to believe this wasn't due to pressure. 0 - https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/facebook-removed-more-than-20-million-posts-for-covid-19-misinformation/ https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/facebook-removed-more...

Schmerika 8mo ago

> asked them to do something, which they ignored. They certainly did not ignore the request [0] (which came at the same time as the FTC were suing Meta for monopoly). Hundreds of millions of posts were taken down or suppressed. 0 - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/biden-administration-repeatedly-pressured-meta-mark-zuckerberg-in-letter-6426079 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/biden-administration-repeate...

nitwit005 8mo ago
That article does say they ignored it: > In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
- Schmerika 8mo ago
  You're misinterpreting that sentence. It's not that they never agreed. It's that sometimes they disagreed, and they got pressured harder when they did. Did you read the first two paragraphs? > In a letter to the US Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has alleged that the US government under Joe Biden "repeatedly pressured" Meta to censor certain content on its platforms. > In the letter addressed to US House of Representatives, Mr Zuckerberg said that the platform had to make some changes, that "with the benefit of hindsight and new information," they won't make today. He added that he regrets not being "more outspoken" about it. We know for a fact that Meta had removed over 20 million Corona posts by April 2021 alone [0]. Some of those were genuine misinformation - but a hell of a lot were legitimate and important questions from reputable sources. It's simply not reasonable to believe this wasn't due to pressure. 0 - https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/facebook-removed-more-than-20-million-posts-for-covid-19-misinformation/ https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/facebook-removed-more...