Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta Group and Facebook platform at the same time regrets that he did not argue the force of Biden Administration – Harris on censorship of posts concerning Covid-19 or the content of huntsman Biden's laptop. In a letter addressed to the home of Representatives' Judicial Commission, investigating the "complex of industrial censorship", the billionaire claimed it was incorrect and promised it would never happen again.
Zuckerberg confessed to what many already knew and wrote. The point is that the Biden – Harris administration has "many times put pressure" on Meta teams to censor Covid-19 posts. As the CEO of Meta assured, the platform has introduced changes that it is presently ashamed of, and which they would not have made today, given the cognition of the past and fresh information. The head of the social media "regrets" that he was not "more open" in this matter.
In his letter, he wrote: “In 2021, advanced - ranking officials of the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams to censor certain content regarding Covid-19, including humorous and satire, and expressed much frustration with our bands erstwhile we disagreed. In the end, we have made decisions whether to remove the content, and we are liable for this, including the changes related to Covid-19 that we have introduced to enforce the law as a consequence of this pressure."
He goes on to say: “I feel that the government’s force was wrong, and I regret that we did not talk openly about it. I besides think that we have made any decisions that, in retrospect and with fresh information, we would not have made today. As I told our teams at the time, I am convinced that we should not lower the standards of content due to force from any administration and we are prepared to defy if something like this happens again," he promised.
The Republican organization home of Representatives' Judicial Committee published Zuckerberg's letter on platform X. "Mark Zuckerberg just admitted 3 things: 1. Biden – Harris Administration "made pressure" on Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook censored huntsman Biden's laptop content history. A large triumph for freedom of speech."
In Zuckerberg's letter, he recalled that the FBI had warned his platform of a possible Russian disinformation operation on the Biden family. De facto It was the FBI that conducted a disinformation action to discredit real information about the compromising content of the laptop of the current president's boy before the 2020 election, as well as about the ties of the Biden household to the Ukrainian energy company and the usage of political influences for private purposes by the Bidens. Zuckerberg admits that past should not have been banned due to the fact that it was not Russian misinformation.
“This autumn erstwhile we saw in New York Post A past of corruption allegations concerning the household of then Democratic candidate president Joe Biden, we sent this communicative to verify the facts and temporarily demoted it while waiting for an answer. Since then, it has become clear that reports were not Russian misinformation and, looking back, we should not have lowered the rank of this message," Zuckerberg said.
Ministry of Political Correctness
The home of Representatives' Judicial Committee, led by Jim Jordan, has been investigating for respective years the "complex of industrial censorship", involving online platforms and various technology companies, mainstream media, academics of renowned American universities, officials of many offices of the current administration, and a number of NGOs, Think tank organisation fact-checking (verifying content appearing in media space).
Procedure The Censorship Industrial Complex. U.S. Government Support For home Censorship And Disinformation Campaigns 2016 – 2022 includes evidence by writer and environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, who testified before the Judicial Subcommittee in 2023 (House choice Committee on the Weaponization of the national Government), where he spoke of a modern large censorship company managed by the national technological and technological elite and financed by unconscious taxpayers. The complex threatens freedom and democracy. It includes a increasing network of government agencies, academic institutions and non-governmental organisations that actively act to censor American citizens — frequently without their cognition — on many issues, including those concerning the origin of Covid-19, vaccines against Covid-19, Emails on huntsman Biden's business transactions, climate change, renewable energy, fossil fuels and many more.
Schellenberger pointed out that government officials had been “catched” by repeatedly pushing social networking sites, media platforms to censor unfavorable content for them. The U.S. government has funded organizations that put force on advertisers to boycott media organizations and social platforms refusing censorship and/or spreading “disinformation”, including alleged conspiracy theories.
The accusations were made at: Stanford University net Observatory (Stanford net Observatory), Washington University (Washington University), Atlantic Council (Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic investigation Lab) and Graphics, which have unclear links with the Department of Defense, CIA and another intelligence agencies. They besides work with many U.S. government agencies to institutionalise censorship investigation and advance it at another universities and in Think tank.
He stressed before the committee that the way in which specified groups operate is important. They are not curious in making public contacts with their opponents as part of an open exchange of ideas, nor do they want a national debate on limiting the operation of the first amendment to the Constitution. "Moreover, they make black lists of disadvantaged people, and then exert pressure, encouraging and demanding social media platforms to censor, weaken the message, or even ban people on these black lists," we read.
The institutions forming the censorship complex are to carry out operations to spread their own influences frequently under the cover of “verification of facts”, convincing journalists and social media management that accurate information is simply a disinformation that legitimate hypotheses constitute “conspiracy theories” and that greater self-censorship results in a greater number of reliable reporting.
According to Schellenberger, "in many cases censorship, specified as the labelling of content on social media, is part of an impact operation aimed at discrediting factual information". He adds that the censorship complex uses intellectual manipulation methods, any developed by the American military during the global war on terrorism, combining them with highly sophisticated IT tools, including advanced algorithmic systems (so-called artificial intelligence). The leaders of this complex are afraid that the net and social media platforms reenforce the message and position of "populists", as well as alternate and marginal personalities and views considered by the mainstream to be destabilising.
Distinctively, national officials, government agencies previously active in the fight against the muslim State (ISIS) and terrorism, later in the fight against "extremists", are now focused on tracking misinformation.
On 5 February 2024, a study was published. The weatherization of the national discipline foundation: how nsf is based the improvement of automated tools to censor online velocity “at scale” and trying to cover up its actions. This is an expression of the work of the Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee choice Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the national Government U.S. home of Representatives. It describes in item “the financing by the National discipline Foundation (NSF) of censorship and propaganda tools driven by artificial intelligence and the repeated efforts of that organisation to conceal its activities and avoid political and media control.
The papers obtained by the Committee on Justice and the Subcommittee showed that paid by national bureaucrats, researchers of “disinformation” and non-profit groups realised that their actions of “modering content” and the fight against alleged misinformation came down to selective censorship. Nevertheless, the NSF continued to support the improvement of fresh technologies that would in rule enable selective control of large-scale online statements.
The study states that the first amendment prohibits the government from "restricting freedom of expression", so "any law or policy of the government that restricts that freedom on platforms [social media] ... violates the first amendment".
The Commission and the Subcommittee are investigating "conspiracy" (collussion) national officials with third-party intermediaries, including universities, non-profit organisations and businesses, to censor protected statements on social media.
"Stanford’s Election Integration Partnership (EIP) – created at the request of the Department of interior safety (DHS) cell: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure safety Agency (CISA) – collaborated with the national government to mark links between thousands of people. She sent her recommendations straight to large social media platforms to censor American speech online in the run-up to the 2020 election.
The 3rd national Trade Commission (FTC) harassed Twitter Elon Musk (now X) due to his commitment to the protection of freedom of speech, even going to attack circumstantial journalists.
Biden's White home officials personally engaged in criticism of social media platforms, demanding changes in content moderation rules.
The Commission and the Judicial Subcommittee will proceed to work, collect evidence of the violation of American rights and exposure it to the public.
Congressmen who prepared the study showed that conservative statements were primarily censored, and organized actions in this area were undertaken in consequence to the 2016 U.S. elections and the 2017 Brexit vote. At that time, a number of teams and cells were formed to combat "MDM information". Under the pretext of fighting abroad misinformation in various agencies, fresh influence and perception management cells were created. The taxpayer's money was utilized to analyse the "pseudonauk of misinformation", threatening "unfettered speech" on the Internet. This has become a origin of income for an expanding number of "Cenzury Industrial Complex" entities.
A study published in spring from the findings of the members of the committee shows that a number of entities censored content related to the effectiveness of vaccines against Covid-19, the very threat of covid, conservative posts, the past of huntsman Biden's laptop, the ties of the Biden household to the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma and many another statements.
Zuckerberg assured the head of the Judicial Commission that Meta had introduced rules to defend against akin censorship in the future. He announced that they would not lower the rank of the message, awaiting the decision of the “fact verifiers”.
The "New York Post" study on Hunter's abandoned laptop revealed the existence of tens of thousands of e-mails between the president's boy and business associates, showing how "the first son" utilized his political influences to conduct business abroad.
Zuckerberg promised not to spend another $400 million to finance local elections as it did in 2020. This time he's got to stay out of politics.
Sources: thehill.com, yro.slashdot.org, nypost.com, PCH24.pl
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