The Facebook founder talked about the site's approach to COVID-19 posts.
The Facebook founder talked about the site's approach to COVID-19 posts.Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022.Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg seemed toto Congress about failing to speak out when the Biden administration pressured the social network to "censor" some COVID-19 posts during the pandemic.
In the last few years though, we’ve seen how impactful misinformation can be. How a series of false stories about stealing elections can turn into a riotous mob. How a war can be justified to a country’s citizens by saying, “our neighbors need to be invaded.” KAFKA: Well, I'm not entirely sure what this letter is all about. We can talk about what's in it, but the apology you make reference to is a specific thing. That's a pretty short letter saying, look, during the pandemic in 2020, 2021, the Biden White House -- he singles out the Biden White House, I think that's important -- was in touch with us about a lot of stuff they wanted us to take down around COVID-19 and a lot of that advice they gave us, we didn't take.
And then last, Zuckerberg says, look on my own through my charity with my wife, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, we spent about $400 million personally through our charity, in 2020 to try to facilitate safe voting. There was a pandemic, we wanted people to know how to vote safely, how they could vote remotely, etc..
KAFKA: You know, there's a lot of tech people who started off thinking, "We can ignore Washington and government in general, and we can sort of be on our own." And 20 or 30 years ago, that was a pretty common perception in Silicon Valley.
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