Zuckerberg says Biden admin "pressured" Meta to censor Covid-19 content

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the Biden administration was "wrong" to pressure the company to censor certain inaccurate content during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why it matters: Social media networks played a significant role in helping spread misinformation and vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic, with potentially lethal consequences for some Americans.

The big picture: In 2021, senior administration officials "repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content," Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee.

This included censoring "humor and satire," he added, noting that officials "expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree."