Summarised by Centrist
According to author Jeffrey Tucker, Mark Zuckerberg’s open admission of Facebook’s censorship under pressure from the Biden administration is startling.
“What if, for example, his own internal data is showing 10 to one support for Trump over Kamala, completely contradicting the polls which are not credible anyway? That alone could account for his change of heart,” he writes.
Notably, although Zuckerberg acknowledged that “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration… repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content”, Tucker points out the censorship started at least from March 2020.
His admission throws light on the extensive government influence over platforms like Facebook during critical periods such as the 2020 and 2022 elections.
Tucker argues that the scale of suppression and the consequences extend beyond the US, affecting global elections and public discourse on issues like lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine debates.
“It was a global shutdown of all opposition to radical, egregious, unworkable and deeply damaging policies,” he writes.
Tucker contends that, “this is not just some minor error in judgement. This was an earth-shattering decision that goes way beyond managerial cowardice.”
He calls the manipulation, “an outright coup that overthrew an entire generation of leaders who stood up for freedom and replaced them with a generation of leaders who acquiesced to power exactly at the time it mattered the most.”
