Zuckerberg: Biden-Harris ‘Repeatedly Pressured’ Us To Censor Free Speech

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter on Monday that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly pressured his company — which includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and more —  to censor content that is protected free speech.

Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) this week in which he said that his goal moving forward was to “be neutral and not play a role one way or another” for either any political party or ideology. He said he doesn’t even want the appearance of playing a role and will not be making political contributions.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” he said in the letter. “Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.”

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“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he continued. “I also think we made some choices that. with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. 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.”

He said that the company made a mistake by temporarily demoting a New York Post story during the 2020 election about Hunter Biden’s laptop after officials falsely suggested that it was part of a “Russian disinformation operation.”

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” he said. “We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again – for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S while waiting for fact-checkers.”

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He said that he does not plan on making any political contributions during this cycle after he gave money to support electoral infrastructure in 2020 that led to accusations that he was trying to help Democrats because of where the money was reportedly deployed.

“My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role,” he said. “So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.”

Trump To Create New Reserve Component For U.S. Military Branch

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if he wins back the presidency this fall, he will create a new reserve component for the U.S. Space Force.

Trump made the remarks while speaking at the National Guard Association of the United States conference in Detroit about national security issues.

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“One of my proudest achievements in my first term was to create Space Force, the first new branch of the Armed Forces in over 70 years,” he said. “Now that Space Force is up and running, I agree with your leadership … that the time has come to create a Space National Guard as the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Space Force.”

“As president, I will sign historic legislation creating a Space National Guard into law,” he continued.

“We will make a historic investment in building a U.S. military for the 21st century, investing heavily in drones, robotics, artificial intelligence, hypersonics,” he added.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: “One of my proudest achievements in my first term was to create SPACE FORCE, the first new branch of the Armed Forces in over 70 years… Now that Space Force is up and running, I agree with your leadership that the time has come to create a SPACE NATIONAL GUARD… pic.twitter.com/u9ZQphUzOd

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 26, 2024

Trump directed the creation of the U.S. Space Force in 2018 as the sixth branch of the armed forces.

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“Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea,” Trump said at the time. “We have the Air Force, we’ll have the space force.”

During his speech in Detroit, Trump added that he wants to create a missile defense system around the U.S. that is similar to Israel’s “Iron Dome.”

“And, we’re going to build a great Iron Dome for missile defense around our nation,” he said. “Other countries have said Israel has it. You know, Ronald Reagan wanted this many years ago, but we didn’t have the technology at that point. But now we have the technology.”

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