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‘They pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true,’ the Meta CEO says.

Meta and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a new interview this week that Biden administration staff pressured his company into censoring COVID-19 posts and memes.

“While they’re trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who was basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard to take down things that honestly were true,” Zuckerberg told Rogan.

“They basically pushed us and said, ‘anything that says vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.’”

Recalling what he told White House officials, Zuckerberg said, “I was just like, ‘well, we’re just not going to do that.’”

“These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and ... scream at them and curse,” the Facebook founder said during a Friday appearance of the “Joe Rogan Experience.”

Zuckerberg said that White House officials became the “most extreme” about targeting certain posts “when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program” in 2021.