Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the Meta Connect event on September 25, 2024 in Menlo Park, California. Taken together, this is a key step in Zuckerberg’s goal of one day offering a hands-free alternative to smartphones.
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Yuan CEO Mark Zuckerberg tell joe rogan podcast The release on Friday said his company was under pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about the side effects of the coronavirus vaccine.
In a conversation that lasted about three hours, Zuckerberg told Rogan that he was “very supportive of the vaccine rollout” in general and that the vaccine had “more positives than negatives.”
“But I think at the same time that they’re trying to push the plan forward, they’re also trying to censor anyone who is basically opposed to the plan,” Zuckerberg said.
Representatives for the Biden administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A few days ago, Meta said it would Stop relying on Third parties check the facts posted on their widely used apps, instead turning to community annotations to let users add comments about authenticity. This strategy makes Meta more consistent with X, its owner, Muskhas been advising the president-elect Donald Trump and was a major supporter of his campaign.
It’s the latest in a series of announcements and comments since Trump’s election that appear to be aimed at appeasing the incoming president. last week, Yuan The company’s current vice president for policy, Joel Kaplan, a former Republican staffer, replaced Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs.
Yuan is one of them Several large technology companies Announced a donation of $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. nbc news reported.
Zuckerberg has criticized the Biden administration’s handling of COVID-19 content in the past.
in a letter Zuckerberg told the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in August that the administration had “pressured Meta” to “review” Covid-19 content, adding that he was concerned about some of the decisions the company had made in response to those requests. Pity.
“They put a lot of pressure on us to remove things that were true,” Zuckerberg told Rogen. “They basically pressured us to say, you know, anything that said the vaccine might have side effects, You basically need to cancel.”
Zuckerberg did not specify who in the White House made the requests, admitting “I was not directly involved in those conversations.” But he said the company’s response was that it would not remove content that was “indisputably true.”
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Talk about 2021 Headache, fatigue, muscle aches, nausea and fever are the most common side effects Johnson & Johnson Single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. Globally, COVID-19 vaccines credit During the epidemic, tens of millions of lives are saved every year.
On another matter, Zuckerberg said the U.S. government has not done enough to protect its technology industry, leaving overseas regulators with too much power. He said that the EU has fined technology companies more than US$30 billion in the past 20 years.
“One of the things that I’m optimistic about about President Trump is I think he just wants America to win,” Zuckerberg said.
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