Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content

Mark Zuckerberg at a senate committee hearing in January. ‘I believe the government pressure was wrong,’ he said. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has said he regrets bowing to what he claims was pressure from the US government to censor posts about Covid on Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic.

Zuckerberg said senior White House officials in Joe Biden’s administration “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor certain Covid-19 content” during the pandemic.