The billionaire says White House officials pressured Meta to remove content 'for months' in 2021.
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets bowing to what he calls pressure from the Biden administration to "censor" content on Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Zuckerberg also said his firm briefly "demoted" content relating to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, ahead of the 2020 election, after the FBI warned of "a potential Russian disinformation" operation. Mr Zuckerberg said the decisions made were the decisions of his business, but that the “government pressure was wrong”.
His letter was addressed to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House judiciary committee, which has been investigating content moderation on online platforms. Republicans said the letter was a " Mr Zuckerberg said the story was temporarily demoted on his platforms while going through a fact-check - after a warning from the FBI of a potential Russian disinformation operation, and "in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story," Mr Zuckerberg wrote.Mr Zuckerberg also said he did not plan to make any more contributions to supporting electoral infrastructure.
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