Zuckerberg expressed regret for not being more vocal about "government pressure" to censor COVID-19-related content - eviltoast
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Zuckerberg said senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor” content in 2021. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken,” he wrote to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). “Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” Zuckerberg added.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1431·
    2 months ago

    Zuckerberg thinks Facebook should self regulate and that means in this case be free to allow posts of anti-vax propaganda and covid conspiracy theories that literally cost lives.

    This is just a great example of why social media needs external regulation.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      161·
      2 months ago

      This is just a great example of why social media needs external regulation.

      And “needs external regulation” here just means “needs to not be above the law”.

      • koper@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        They are not above the law, because these is no law in the US that regulates how social media platforms should be moderated. This is new territory. The EU only recently passed the Digital Services Act that broadly deals with this topic.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          They are not above the law, because these is no law in the US that regulates how social media platforms should be moderated.

          And that is entirely coincidental and has nothing to do with the endless billions pouring into political bribery in the US. The EU started regulating it because the shit was piling up so high, it started to smell over the Atlantic.

          What I mean by being above the law is both that they get to write the law, and that even if they run afoul of it, they get to get off with bullshit fines, often without admitting that they did anything wrong.

      • carbonari_sandwich@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        But there is surely room between “controlled by the government” and “not accountable for the content on its platform.”

          • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
            31·
            2 months ago

            Do you think the government has complete control over your speech now? Do you think you are absolutely free to say whatever you want? I don’t even know where to start with someone who doesn’t understand that it doesn’t have to be one or the other despite, right now, it not being one or the other.

              • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
                21·
                2 months ago

                I don’t know where to start with someone who doesn’t understand the concept of a slippery slope or legal precedent.

                Well, when you figure it out, let me know where because it’s clear you don’t understand either of those terms.