Biden administration officers phoned executives at Meta to “scream” and “curse” at them whereas demanding that they take away Fb posts casting doubt on the coronavirus vaccine, Mark Zuckerberg stated throughout a sit-down with Joe Rogan on Friday.
The billionaire tech govt stated that Biden aides pressured Meta to take away content material in regards to the vaccine “that was honestly true” in the course of the early days of the administration, when it rolled out the jabs.
“These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse,” the Meta chief stated on the “Joe Rogan Experience.”
When Rogan requested whether or not these telephone calls had been recorded, Zuckerberg responded that he didn’t suppose so.
Zuckerberg stated the Biden staff wished Meta to take away posts that accurately acknowledged that the vaccines might induce unwanted effects.
“Basically it just got to this point [where we told them], ‘No, we’re not going to take down this thing that was true’,” Zuckerberg stated.