Facebook boss: “They pressured us to delete things that are true”

New York (USA) – Serious allegations from Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg (40) against the US government: In an interview with the American podcaster Joe Rogan (57), the Facebook founder speaks of “censorship” by the state during the Crown– Pandemic.

Employees of President Joe Biden (82) would therefore have to work with managers Meta called them, yelled at them and asked them to post negative posts about them Covid vaccination delete on Facebook.

“Anything that says vaccines could have side effects basically had to be removed.”

“It was brutal,” said Mark Zuckerberg. “They pushed us super hard to delete stuff that was true. Anything that said vaccines could have side effects basically had to be removed.”

Zuckerberg continued: “Agencies and branches of government started investigating and coming after our company.” The 40-year-old didn’t let that deter him: “Basically it just got to the point where we told them, ‘No, we will not remove this true thing’.”

Zuckerberg then spoke in favor of the US President-elect Donald Trump from: “I think he just wants America to win.”

Secret meeting with Donald Trump

On Friday, the tech millionaire met with Trump at his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, the news website “Semafor” reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. Zuckerberg had already declared that he wanted to work with Donald Trump to “roll back censorship worldwide.”

The social media company said in a note to its employees on Friday USAthat it would also end its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Zuckerberg is modeled on Elon Musk

Previously had Meta abolished fact checking on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The truthfulness of the contributions is checked. Instead, users should now have the opportunity to mark false or misleading statements as such.

With the system of so-called “Community Notes” (German: “Community Notes”), the US company is based on the short message service X of the Trump confidant and Tesla boss Elon Musk (53).

Ex-President Joe Biden (82) strongly condemned the move: “I think it’s really shameful,” he told reporters at the White House. “Telling the truth is important.”