2024-08-27 20:51:52
The rain is changing, and the tongue is releasing it to him. Almost two years after the revelations of the Twitter Files on the role of the United States government and intelligence agencies have worked on the pre-editing group of the X platform now, the group Meta by Zuckerberg reveals, in a way, the pressures that are made to user content manager. In a letter sent to a congressional committee, the company’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, who is increasingly under pressure, said that the Biden administration and the FBI put pressure “for months” on his teams to act content information, “sometimes comedy and satire”, linked to the COVID-19 epidemic or Hunter Biden’s laptop case.
In his letter, released on Monday August 26, 2024, the boss of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Thread and WhatsApp, under attack in recent times, took advantage of the “opportunity” that for him by the investigation of a committee on the moderation of content on social networks to describe, at this time indifferent, the “inappropriate” behavior of the government, especially the Biden administration and the White House, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Inappropriate” pressure from the Biden administration
“In 2021, senior officials in the Biden administration, including the White House, put continuous pressure on our teams for months to consider content related to COVID-19, including humor and satire,” he revealed. . Mark Zuckerberg showed that these leaders “show a lot of frustration with our groups when we don’t have an agreement” and give this pressure, which is, in his words, “unacceptable”. He lamented: “I regret that we were not firm on this point.
“Ultimately, it is our decision whether or not to remove content, and we have our decisions, including the COVID-19-related changes we made to our moderation as a result of this pressure.” . In his letter, he finally expressed his regret for taking “certain decisions that, with hindsight and new information, we would not take today”.
The tide is changing but the White House is defending itself, but Zuckerberg will be “ready to fight”
He thus confirmed that he and his team are “ready to prevent” if new problems arise. “As I told our teams at the time, I am confident that we must not compromise our content standards because of pressure from any administration.” He recalled at the beginning of his letter: “Our foundational altars are open to all. We promote freedom of expression and help people connect safely and securely”.
This letter comes two months before the United States presidential elections on November 5, which will pit Republican Donald Trump, former president, against Kamala Harris, vice president Joe Biden and his replacement in this race for the White House after his withdrawal. Regarding the polls, Mark Zuckerberg said that his “goal is to be ‘neutral’ and not influence one way or another – or even appear to influence.”
The White House responded to his letter, reiterating that “his position is clear and accurate.” “We believe that technology groups and other private actors must consider the consequences of their actions on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they disseminate,” a spokesperson for the U.S. government said in a statement. a short publication.
Zuckerberg’s revelations confirmed the information that Elon Musk revealed shortly after his takeover of Twitter at the end of 2022. The documents linked to the previous audit group were revealed behind his scenes and his decisions, both on the issue from Hunter Biden’s computer and on the Covid-19 epidemic. The Twitter files also reveal Twitter practices, such as visibility filters, shadow blocking and censorship, all under pressure from government and intelligence agencies.
It seems that in the country of Uncle Sam, the quartet of Trump, Kennedy, Musk, Carlson is causing grief.
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