Joe Biden is clearly unhappy with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to repair his relationship with Donald Trump.
The outgoing president said at a press conference on Friday that Zuckerberg’s decision to roll back his platforms’ censorship policies was “really shameful” and against American values.
“It’s just completely contrary to everything America is about,” he said.
“We want to tell the truth. We haven’t always done it as a nation. We want to tell the truth.”
“The idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something and say, ‘By the way, we’re not gonna fact check anything,’ and you know, you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this stuff,” he continued.
“Anyway, I think it’s really shameful.”
BREAKING: Biden rips Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to get rid of biased fact checkers on Meta for a “Community Notes” model, goes on a pro-censorship tirade.
“It’s really shameful.”
“I find it to be just contrary to American justice. Telling the truth matters! […] “You think it… pic.twitter.com/pWMZjkJBGN
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 10, 2025
His comments came after Zuckerberg announced plans to remove fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, an idea originally implemented by Elon Musk over on X.
“Fact-checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created,” Zuckerberg said in a video announcing the new policy.
“What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far.”
In an interview with Joe Rogan on Friday, Zuckerberg also revealed that the Biden administration had been aggressively demanding the platform step up their censorship efforts, particularly on issues such as COVID vaccines.
“Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse,” Zuckerberg said.
“It just got to this point where we were like, ‘No, we’re not gonna, we’re not gonna take down things that are true. That’s ridiculous.’”
ZUCK: “These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and scream at them and curse… It was brutal.”
Even I didn’t realize it was that bad.
— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) January 10, 2025
On Friday, Zuckerberg also confirmed that the company would be scrapping all its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs and return to meritocratic-based hiring practices.
Just days before, he appointed UFC President and fervent Donald Trump support Dana White to the company board. White spoke at the Republican National Convention and even made an appearance during Trump’s victory speech.
He also recently fired Nick Clegg, a former British Deputy Prime Minister who was serving as the company’s president for global affairs, and replaced him with Joel Kaplan, a longtime Republican operative.
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