Meta faced intense pressure from the Biden administration to remove vaccine-related content, according to Zuckerberg.

• On a podcast with Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Biden administration pressured Meta to remove posts suggesting that Covid vaccines could have side effects.
• Zuckerberg believed that Covid vaccines had more positive than negative effects, but he felt that the administration was pushing to remove accurate posts.
• Since Trump's election in November, Zuckerberg has made several moves and announcements aimed at pleasing him.

On Friday, in a podcast with Joe Rogan, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that his company faced pressure from the Biden administration to remove content discussing the side effects of Covid vaccines.

In a three-hour conversation, Zuckerberg expressed his support for rolling out vaccines, stating that they have a more positive impact than negative.

Zuckerberg stated that although they were attempting to promote the program, they also attempted to suppress those who opposed it.

A Biden administration representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meta has announced that it will stop relying on third parties to verify facts published on its widely used applications and instead rely on community notes, allowing users to add commentary regarding truthfulness. This strategy aligns Meta with X, whose owner, Elon Musk, has been advising President-elect Donald Trump and was a major backer of his campaign.

Meta has appointed Joel Kaplan, its current policy vice president and a former Republican Party staffer, as its new president of global affairs, in a move aimed at appeasing the incoming president.

Several large technology companies, including Meta, pledged to donate $1 million each to Trump's inauguration, according to NBC News.

In the past, Zuckerberg has criticized the Biden administration's management of Covid-related content.

In August, Zuckerberg wrote to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, stating that the administration pressured Meta to censor Covid-19 content, and he expressed regret for some of the decisions the company made in response to those requests.

"Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook was pressured intensely to remove content stating the possibility of vaccine side effects, as instructed by those in power."

Zuckerberg stated that he was not directly involved in conversations with White House officials who made requests to remove content from Facebook. However, he revealed that the company's response was that it would not remove content that is "kind of inarguably true."

In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration stated that the most common side effects of a single-shot Covid vaccine were headache, fatigue, muscle aches, nausea, and fever. Covid vaccines have been credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide during the pandemic.

Zuckerberg stated that the US government has not done enough to safeguard its tech industry, allowing too much control to foreign regulators. In the past 20 years, the European Union has imposed fines totaling over $30 billion on tech companies.

Zuckerberg expressed optimism about President Trump's desire for America to succeed.

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