Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has unveiled several previously undisclosed pieces of information concerning White House pressure on Facebook to censor the lab leak theory of Covid-19.
Elon Musk has described the new information as a “Smoking gun First Amendment violation.”
Zerohedge reported that Jordan initially shared a text message from Mark Zuckerberg to Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, and Joel Kaplan—the company’s top executives at the time.
Zuckerberg inquired in the message Jordan shared on X about whether Facebook can publicly disclose that “the [Biden] WH put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory?”
This message notably was sent hours after Biden accused Facebook of “killing people.”
Clegg responded, characterizing the Biden White House as “highly cynical and dishonest.”
Sandberg then expressed the sentiment that they were being scapegoated due to the White House’s failure to meet its vaccination targets.
Jordan outlined that “Facebook felt that they had been combatting alleged misinformation—aka censoring Americans—all year!”
He further highlighted, “Since February 2021, the company had been censoring the ‘Wuhan lab leak theory’ ‘in response to … tense conversations with the new [Biden] Administration.’”
Facebook ceased removing content related to the lab leak theory in late May of 2021, although they opted to demote it, Zerohedge reports.
When employees informed Zuckerberg about the reversal and detailed why they had initially censored the theory, the Facebook CEO responded by stating that this outcome was a result of the company “compromises [its] standards due to pressure from an administration.”
Fox News reported almost one year ago on Zuckerberg’s assertion that the scientific “establishment” requested his platform to “censor” posts concerning COVID-19 that were ultimately “debatable or true.”
His remarks came during an episode of the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” where Zuckerberg delved into the “issues and challenges” associated with implementing his platform’s policies on removing “misinformation.”
Zuckerberg emphasized the complexity of addressing content that is false but may not pose harm, stating, “are you going to censor someone for just being wrong, if there’s no kind of harm implication of what they’re doing?”
As an illustration, he pointed to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, where there were significant health implications, but scientific assumptions had not yet been fully vetted.
He noted that during this time, there was uncertainty and inconsistency among the scientific establishment regarding certain facts surrounding COVID-19.
Zuckerberg noted the “establishment” encouraged him to enforce these shaky facts, saying they “asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true.”
He would later inform CBS anchor Gayle King that his platform had taken down 18 million posts containing misinformation about the virus during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
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