In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO claims he was pressured by the U.S. government to remove content related to COVID-19.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sent a letter to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee saying the U.S. government pressured the company and its Facebook and Instagram apps to remove content related to COVID-19.
Fighting disinformation
The covid-19 pandemic has changed the daily lives of the entire population for months. A period of confinement during which, learning about advances in research was of vital importance. It is on X (formerly Twitter) that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to revisit the period.
He accuses the US government of having exercised « pressures on [ses] teams for months to censor certain content related to covid-19″. Content that can sometimes be satyr. He seems to regret today having given in despite the quantity of false information that could have been rife on social networks during this period.
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A US election marked by disinformation
These statements come in the middle of the election period in the United States. Elections marked by disinformation on social networks. One of the spearheads being the CEO of X, Elon Musk. The latter distinguished himself by publishing a fake video of the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris or even more recently by contravening the principle of neutrality of X by inviting Donald Trump without contradiction.
On Meta’s side, Mark Zuckerberg wants to go to the antipodes by creating a space of “neutrality”. The CEO of Meta had been accused in 2020 by Republicans of having helped the Democrats organize to win the presidential election by supporting non-partisan organizations. Today, the CEO seems to want to wipe the slate clean. “My goal is to be neutral and not to play a role one way or the other, or even to give the impression of playing a role.”Zuckerberg said in his letter.
