{"id":2331311,"date":"2024-08-26T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-admits-censorship-and-vows-to-curb-election-donations-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:21:24","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-admits-censorship-and-vows-to-curb-election-donations-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-admits-censorship-and-vows-to-curb-election-donations-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg admits censorship and vows to curb election donations &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-zuckerberg-admits-censorship-and-vows-to-curb-election-donations-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2331311&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent statement, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed Congress regarding his commitment to resist\u200b censorship pressures from \u2064the Biden administration ahead \u2062of the 2024 election. He highlighted past \u200dinstances where\u2064 senior officials pressured his company\u2062 to \u200blimit certain types \u200bof content \u2062about \u200dCOVID-19, including humor and satire, which \u2063he found troubling and regrettable. Zuckerberg emphasized that he made poor content moderation decisions in \u200bresponse to this pressure but vowed to \u2064resist any future attempts at censorship. He also announced that he would not contribute to the controversial &#8220;Zuckerbucks&#8221; in the upcoming elections, affirming his stance against \u2064compromising Meta\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-state-board-of-education-sued-for-allegedly-banning-criticism-of-1619-project\/\" title=\"Ohio State Board of Education Sued for Allegedly Banning Criticism of \u20181619 Project\u2019\">content standards<\/a> under governmental influence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mark Zuckerberg admits censorship and vows to curb election donations<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1543759\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Meta CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> made weighty promises to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Congress\">Congress<\/a> on Monday ahead of the 2024 election, saying he planned to fight any pressure from the White House to censor content on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> and that he would not donate his controversial &ldquo;Zuckerbucks&rdquo; in this year&rsquo;s election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Zuckerberg said in his most explicit criticisms yet of the Biden White House that senior officials &ldquo;repeatedly pressured&rdquo; the tech billionaire&rsquo;s company to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-censorship-by-proxy-probe-explores-governments-role-in-new-youtube-policies\/\" title=\"Congress Investigates Government Influence on New YouTube Policies\">suppress content related<\/a> to COVID-19 on its Facebook platform in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn&rsquo;t agree,&rdquo; Zuckerberg wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He said he believed the pressure from the White House, which came to light through a sweeping lawsuit brought by two Republican attorneys general in 2022, was &ldquo;wrong,&rdquo; that he regretted not being more vocal about it, that he made misinformed content moderation choices, and that his company would &ldquo;push back&rdquo; on any future pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction&mdash;and we&rsquo;re ready to push back if something like this happens again,&rdquo; Zuckerberg wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook founder also addressed his and his wife&rsquo;s &ldquo;Zuckerbucks&rdquo; spending in the 2020 presidential election, which involved the Zuckerberg Chan Initiative funneling more than $400 million into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-zuckerberg-broke-law-with-dropboxes\/\" title=\"Trump: Zuckerberg &#039;Broke Law&#039; with Dropboxes\">local election offices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Critics at the time claimed the massive private donations from Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, improperly influenced the election after the funds were used in major battleground states that saw close races.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another&mdash;or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don&rsquo;t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle,&rdquo; Zuckerberg wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"FILE_3589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/762914989\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-tiFOOHnohS35ptjq8alF\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_41408\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1543759\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1543759\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges censorship and pledges to limit election contributions. On Monday, the Meta CEO made significant commitments to Congress in anticipation of the 2024 election, stating his intention to resist any White House pressure to censor content on his social media platform and confirming that he would refrain from contributing his contentious &#8220;Zuckerbucks&#8221; during this election cycle. In what were some of his strongest criticisms of the Biden administration, Zuckerberg revealed that senior officials had &#8220;repeatedly pressured&#8221; his company in 2021 to suppress COVID-19-related content on Facebook. He noted that these officials expressed considerable frustration when Facebook did not comply with their requests for censorship, which included humor and satire about the pandemic. Zuckerberg described this pressure as &#8220;wrong,&#8221; expressed regret for not speaking out more forcefully at the time, acknowledged making poor decisions regarding content moderation, and asserted that his company would resist any future attempts at coercion. He emphasized a commitment to maintaining content standards without yielding to pressures from any administration: \u201cI feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction\u2014and we\u2019re ready to push back if something like this happens again.\u201d Additionally, he addressed concerns surrounding the financial contributions made by him and his wife through their initiative during the 2020 presidential election\u2014over $400 million directed toward local election offices\u2014which critics argued could have unduly influenced outcomes in key battleground states. To avoid similar controversies moving forward, Zuckerberg stated: \u201cMy goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another\u2014or even appear to be playing a role. So I don\u2019t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.\u201d This story is still developing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2331312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP24031703041643-1024x588.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6371,39348,35598,32364,32076],"class_list":["post-2331311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-censorship","tag-election-donations","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-social-media","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP24031703041643-1024x588.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}