The vast amount of people that were censored and banned from Meta platforms for expressing truthful information won't be quick to forgive Mark Zuckerberg, even as his does a PR blitz for his new "free speech" push. But during an appearance today on The Joe Rogan Experience, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Biden administration pressured him to censor memes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and constantly pushed for the censorship of truthful speech critical of the Covid-19 vaccines. The Meta CEO recounted how the White House would "call up our team and scream at them and curse" over content shared on social media.
Zuckerberg explained that his resistance to these demands solidified when officials pushed for the removal of a meme featuring Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV, an image taken from the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The meme's caption read, "10 years from now you're going to see an ad that says if you took a Covid vaccine you'd be eligible for a payment," which Zuckerberg described as resembling a typical class-action lawsuit joke.
Despite pressure to delete the post, Zuckerberg stated, "No we're not we're not going to take down humor," emphasizing his team's alleged stance on preserving content that, while humorous, was not false. (Note: Facebook has censored content similar to this many times before.)
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