Zuckerberg now admits Biden pressured Facebook to suppress posts on Covid. Some give him credit for honesty. Not me.
Zuckerberg Responds to Criticism
JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg responds to people criticizing him as only changing his tune on free expression online after the 2024 election.
He says it’s based on a “cultural pulse.”
“I try not to change our content rules right in the middle of an election. There’s not really a good time to do this.”
“This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I think this is gonna be pretty durable.”
Points for Honesty
In a Post on X, Eric Daugherty says “I have to give Zuckerberg points for honesty.”
That post also contains a self-serving video clip by Zuckerberg.
Let’s be honest: What bullsh*t. This is why.
Censoring Memes
Here is an interesting Video Clip of Zuckeberg with Joe Rogan about the Biden Administration.
“These people from the Biden Administration would call up our team and scream at them, curse.”
Rogan asks “Did you record any of those phone calls?”
Zuckerberg explains “No … There are emails. The emails are published. It’s all kind of out there.” …. “All these different agencies and branches of government started investigating, coming after our company. It was brutal.”
They Pushed Us to Take Down Things that Were True
Here’s a Second Video Clip on censorship.
“At the beginning it kind of seemed like OK. We should give a little deference to the government and health authorities on how we should play this. But when it went from two weeks to flatten the curve, to masks are not important, to you have to wear a mask, and everything was shifting around, it became different to follow.”
“I’m generally pretty pro rolling out vaccines. But I think that while they are trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who was arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true.”
“They pushed us and said that anything that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.”
Had Zuckerberg admitted this in 2022 or 2023, OK. I would give him some credit for speaking out.
He did not even do this in 2024. Instead, he waited until after Trump won.
For this we are supposed to praise Zuckerberg for honesty?
Please be serious.
“I try not to change our content rules right in the middle of an election. There’s not really a good time to do this.”
Sorry, but there is never a good time to hide illegal government coercion. This is all after the fact self-serving BS now that Trump has won.
And it’s possible this delay cost Republicans some House and Senate races.
Zuckerberg deserves negative points for honesty because he is a proven coward.
Zuckerberg’s timing is suspect. He was just sued by RFK, Jr’s organization. Trump’s win gives the all-clear signal that the Democrat deep state won’t come after him for revealing anything. Anybody remember what lies deep in the soul of this creep? See: https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
He might be full of shit, but I suspect he’s also having an early mid-life crisis.
Also: he’s lying.
Absolutely right! Zuckerberg is a coward who is only interested in protecting his own ass and making as much $$$$ as possible.
I regard him and anyone else who partakes in this brand of censorship with extreme prejudice. The origin of covid, number of deaths, masks, distancing and vaccines were all built on a foundation of lies. Thousands should be in a Federal prison including him.
I’m still banned by Zuckerberg from Facebook – I posted the truth about the fake vaccine (that wasn’t a vaccine) …… and he stripped me from any free expression of ideas. No access to Facebook , or Facebook marketplace. Hey Zuck – how about lifting my ban ?
You were banned because you are a nutbar spreading stupid lies that can get people killed, full stop.
The government lies. We are left to ascertain the truth amidst campaigns to deceive us. And you think we’re nutbars?
People should be able to make their own decisions w/o any concern as to how their decision(s) affect anyone else in the world.
This includes taking the Covid shots or not. I did not take these shots and will never do so.
If that causes you a problem, then you should stay locked in your house where you won’t have to worry about what others do.
that’s the opposite of the truth, you are the nutbar spouting stupid lies that can get people killed.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1811783320839008381
Zuck’s new little jewfro almost makes him look human. He should go for the Highway 61 Revisited look.
I agree with Mish on this one. Zuck comes off as sucking up(was about to type something I shouldn’t on Mish’s blog) to Trump now that Trump is going to be POTUS again, not a first amendment champion.
That being said I am still extremely pissed off about the handling of the pandemic. First, losing my dad, an uncle and a cousin to covid.
Second, being gaslit about the origins of covid when the probability it came out of the Wuhan lab was 99% plus.
Third, being lied to about the importance of vaccines when in fact its bad science to use vaccines on a rapidly mutating virus like the common cold virus, another member of the coronavirus family. Remember back in grade school when we were taught why we don’t have a vaccine for the common cold? Money should have been spent on antivirals.
Fourth, the data is pretty marginal on the efficacy of the experimental covid gene therapies “vaccines” and we are experiencing a wave of excess deaths since the onset of the covid “vaccination” program. It remains to be seen if we’ll have a long term issues with these. Funding and attention needs to be given to this issue.(RFK jr)
Fifth, the censorship regime that sprang up during the pandemic that censored us for discussing the above.
Sixth, being gaslit about how great the US response was to Covid when we spent the most per capita and were 3rd from dead last in results worldwide. Great for big pharma and federal politician’s campaign accounts tho.
Seventh, nobody being held accountable for the screwup of this thing leaking from a lab. The folks that caused this should be prosecuted and jailed. The people in the US government that went around the Obama administration’s ban of gain of function research ban and did this work in China need to go to jail.
Eighth, developing safety protocols for viral gain of function work and doing a stronger job of regulating these endeavors. In fact really questioning why this is needed. It seems suspiciously like bioweapons development under the guise of medical research for developing vaccines.
Ninth, we need to do a bi-partisan review of how the pandemic was handled and come up with a better plan for handling the next one.
Tenth, all of the politicians that strongly supported this gaslighting, censorship, and obfuscation program need to called out and publicly reprimanded.
Those who are aware of the Lifelog/Facebook connection understand Zuck isn’t deserving of credit for anything.
As you adroitly observed, years of deceit aren’t erased by a small, belated confession and the timing is laughable.
I completely agree with Mish. Zuck is a coward. In real time he yielded to pressure; a man without principles and a weak backbone. I do not accept this revisionist approach.
I loved the Facebook movie but never used the platform.
Zuck, like any tech exec, wants to portray themselves as something they are not. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t applaud when they do the right thing, even if it’s for less than noble causes.
The MSM and government pushed for the COVID vaccine with flat out propaganda that to me was easily recognizable at the time.
If anyone is interested in a sample thread from that time period: https://mishtalk.com/economics/vaccination-status-vs-hospitalization-rates-how-can-anyone-deny-this-data/
I wonder how many people here who got vaccinated have changed their mind about the COVID vaccine and how it was pushed?
Mish, it’s not a “make or break” issue. I know people who got pretty serious cases of COVID even if they had vaccines, but is what Zuckerberg said really all that serious? The vaccines don’t seem to be all that effective and Zuckerberg did knuckle under because of pressure, but so what. It’s a decent platform that’s free and you can have video conversations with anyone in the world, you can watch interesting short videos on reels which is like TikTok, you can buy things on Marketplace, you can keep a diary on your page or comment on current events….I like Facebook and mostly I don’t complain about it. But you have this blog and you’ve become a curmudgeon. Do you feel better after you vent? Despite your venting, Zuckerberg is still a billionaire and I think he’s only going to get even richer. Life is not perfect, Mish. Live and let live.
Omg what an awful take. 🤢
Sadly there are many millions of morons out there like Jeff.
So, you think we should just look the other way on the safe and effective vaccine when voices pointing out the vaccine was not safe nor effective were muzzled? How do you account for the fact that vaxed people got covid? or got vaccine injured. If they were safe, why was an ambulance stationed at the vax site? I guess you can explain how long-term safety was established under “Operation Warp Speed”. Yet, all those subjects and many more that did not support the “narrative” were muzzled while people were getting sick and many dying. Guess I can’t look the other way, and I think there is a good possibility Zuck is trying to diffuse accountability.
How about the bias toward democrats in the elections from president through school board? Guess election interference is so unimportant that we should look the other way? Or how about the Jan 6 bogus congressional hearings and the censorship of any posting that pointed out the blatant coverup of exculpatory testimony and then the destruction of the records. No sir, I will stand with Mish and not your phony self-righteousness.
Jeff, calling out the bs is a societal responsibility. There are plenty of places that go out of their way to reinforce idiotic, incorrect, antiscience beliefs. NBC, CNN, Fauci, Walensky, FDA, CDC, and on and on. If hearing dissenting opinions that wound up being correct bothers you, why are you here? Just go back to FB or the CDC website where they will be more than happy to assuage your ego and choices.
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Not a surprise, I’ve read fracking needs $80 barrel oil so production is slowing.
You nailed it, Mish. Zuckerberg is a spineless coward. If he was attacked by a Chihuahua I’d bet serious money on the dinky dog.
Zuck is pleading his about face case.
Sad, All he can do is blame the Dementia President.
His company is headed for the MySpace dumpster.
any way the wind blows..thats the way suckerberg points his sails.
he is at his core an opportunist, he stole the code from the Harvard twins that he had to pay off, the DOD & Darpa and lifebook used him as the face of their Brave New World.
he’s a chump, worth a fortune because he was willing to say or do anything for the deep state, not realizing that when he’s no longer a useful idiot, he will be abandoned or used as a patsy.
no individual knows what they might do in actual combat until they go to actual combat. a small percentage of our species has it in them to be actual heroes in the face of untold dangers. most of them die. the rest of us do what we have to do to survive and make it home. I don’t know what I would have done at the head of meta during the covid years, and neither does anybody commenting on this thread. I challenge anyone to raise your hand if you think you’ve ever been in a situation even remotely close.
The Zuck is just doing and saying things now that he hopes will prevent him from being part of the revenge and retribution presidency. So yes, he is a cowardly coward.
One could argue that by suppressing truthful information by experts about Covid-19, Zuck is guilty of manslaughter.
Zuck did the same thing when Biden entered the WH, namely he dumped Trump. Biden is leaving so he backdoor supports Trump.
Rinse and repeat.
Bog Iger recently or more accurately Disney contributed to the Trump coffers by settling the lawsuit with the Donald for defamation of character. This is just in time when Disney and Fubo merged to prevent antitrust investigations.
Bezos stops an editorial endorsing Biden. Why? Defense contracts.
So, Zuckersnot was okay with election interference until the other guy won.
Absolutely. Besides the Zuckbucks that everyone already knows about, he and his wife through the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation support and fund CRT and other Marxist indoctrination in schools.
The Department of Education web site, eric, has the proof. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=crse&id=ED615974
If you click on the direct link off to the right hand side, it takes you to educational publisher Taylor and Francis. You will then see the proof that the funding comes from the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Here’s that link, if you don’t choose to follow the Dept. of Ed. site. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00461520.2019.1623032
CRT is also called SEL or Transformative Social and Emotional Learning or CRSE, or Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education. I’ve been providing this proof for over 5 years now. For this, the censorship, the Zuckbucks, I will never trust him. Ever.
Zuck looks like a capitalist to me. I do notice he has no “dislike” button. Just a “like” button. It’s his platform. He can do what he wants.
he looks like a capitalist, because that is the story they are telling you. He has no skills, he is a puppet put in place, to be manipulated and discarded.
He is a tool.
Zuckerberg is just plain evil. As are all those who work for him
Not as evil as Google, but plenty evil.
A lot of lives could’ve been saved if social media owners and msm didn’t block all the FACTS about the dangers of the COVID Vax.
The original video on YT is now removed, but Jimmy Carter promoted the use of Ivermectin for off-label use in 11 poor countries. Over 160 million doses and he was hailed as a hero by legacy media. Fortunately, proof of that video has been archived.
https://archive.ph/dlWLh
yes Ivermectin, I still use it weekly. it is truly a miracle drug.
Well considering the usual standards of honesty in DC and the media you have to give Zuckerberg significant credit for talking straight at all…. When is the last time a politico or MSM-celeb admitted to making any sort of mistake at all.
I await his equal and opposite “honesty” the next time the winds change. And his cash flows, accordingly.
Not sure who invented it but it was once called the “padrone system” where the contributors give money to both sides. Virgil added the phrase “beware of Greeks bearing gifts” which presents the risks.
Supposedly patronage political systems were, to a fair extent, weeded out in the USA, a movement gaining momentum, into the 20th century. but it appears the incoming powers have completely forgotten (or perhaps never really learned) anything the 20th century has to teach, good or bad.
And there is more brouhaha brewing at Facebook under Zuckerberg from their LGBTQ workers.
There are homosexuals, a genetically determined aberration.
Then there are LGBT activists, youth drifters in search of some meaning in their miserable life. This is a mental disease that will be cured for most by some harsh reality down the road.
Many people confuse the two.
Homosexualism isn’t a “mental illness”. An illness can [theoretically] be cured or mitigated.
Instead, homosexuality is a mental abnormality caused by miswiring of the brain during its formation. The fact that homosexuality is not passed on genetically confirms that it is an abnormality. Homosexuality brings no evolutionary advantage.
We do not {yet] have the technology to detect what triggers this change during fetus gestation and therefore, until/if we ever do, there isn’t any way to correct this issue.
Conversely, this does not mean that homosexuals are bad people or should be ostracized from general society. However, homosexuality should not be celebrated.
A great overview, now help me understand trans sexuals. That particular population seems to be truly mentally ill, and the medical establishment is encouraging them to follow their madness into oblivion.
The opportunist stole the Facebook idea from the Winklevoss twins.
and the court system agreed with the Winklevoss twins, it was in fact stolen.
Mish – You are better than this. Who is Zuckerman?
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The Biden admin Censorship regime would make the gestapo blush. Hard to put in to words how damaging this period has been.
You are also talking that they banned people as did other social media companies for things that have proven to be true . The so called conspiracy theories that turned out to be true and affected people abilty to make a living and so on . You are correct they are cowards .
worse than cowards they profited on killing and disabling innocent people.
I agree; he’s a coward and a despicable rent seeker. He never developed Facebook, he stole it as an opportunist. He never built anything. He’s Bill Gates lite.
Except he has almost everybody’s data, arguably the most valuable intangible asset in the world. Not mine as much, but that actually takes work in today’s world — specialized blockers. Though I know he (it) still has files detailing my behavioral history.
💯 agree. A spineless coward.
To me it’s not a big deal.