According to ChainCatcher, the founder and CEO of Meta admitted that the Biden administration had pressured his team to censor content on the platform. Zuckerberg said:
"Repeatedly in 2021, senior officials in the Biden Administration, including at the White House, pressured our team to censor certain content related to COVID-19, including humor and satire, and expressed significant frustration with our team when we disagreed. Ultimately, it is our decision whether to remove content, and we take responsibility for our decisions, including the modifications we implemented to COVID-19-related content in response to this pressure."
"I think the government pressure was misplaced, and I regret not being more vocal at the time. I also think we made some choices that, in hindsight and based on new information, we shouldn't have made. As I told our team at the time, I firmly believe we should not compromise our content standards in response to any government pressure."
“In another case, the FBI alerted us to a possible Russian disinformation operation involving the Biden family and Burisma ahead of the 2020 election. When we saw a New York Post story that fall about corruption allegations involving the family of then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, we sent the story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily downgraded it while we awaited a response.
It was later made clear that the story was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect we should not have downgraded the story. We have changed our policies and processes to ensure this does not happen again.”