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Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday he regretted that Facebook gave in to pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to remove content.

In a letter to Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said that high-level Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams to remove COVID-19 content that the platform would not have blocked otherwise, and they got angry when Facebook refused.

He told Jordan that he is now sure that the platform shouldn’t lower its standards “because of pressure from any Administration in either direction.”

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook is “ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

Zuckerberg admitted in the letter that the platform should not have censored the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He noted that the FBI had “warned the platform about a potential Russian disinformation operation concerning the Biden family and Burisma leading up to the 2020 election.”

“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply,” he wrote. “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”

Zuckerberg wrote that the platform “no longer temporarily demotes things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.”

In June, the Supreme Court said that states and individual claimants who were fighting against the Biden administration’s efforts to censor speech did not have the right to do so because they could not show a clear connection between the actions of the platform and the government’s pressure.

“The plaintiffs rely on allegations of past Government censorship as evidence that future censorship is likely,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the Murthy v. Missouri majority opinion.

“But they fail, by and large, to link their past social-media restrictions to the defendants’ communications with the platforms. Thus, the events of the past do little to help any of the plaintiffs establish standing to seek an injunction to prevent future harms,” Barrett added.

Documents from the lawsuit showed how hard the government was working. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flagged posts to be taken down, and the White House asked companies to censor Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for their speech about vaccines.

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