Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram parent Meta has now
admitted that they incorrectly censored information about the pandemic
under pressure from governments. In an interview with podcaster Lex
Fridman released on 8 June Zuckerberg said:
Just take some of
the stuff around covid earlier in the pandemic where there were real
health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of
the scientific assumptions … And unfortunately, the establishment kind
of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be
censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true.
So
how did government departments come to censor social media, deleting
factual information and genuine scientific debate? The answer reveals a
lot about the ignorance of politicians and the media....<<<Read More>>>...