Mark Zuckerberg complains to Joe Rogan about censorship of vaccination critics

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg continues to follow the line of the new Trump administration. Just a few days ago, the Facebook founder announced that he would abolish the established fact checks in his social networks and allow more “freedom of expression”. Now Zuckerberg reiterated his censorship accusation against Joe Biden’s government in an interview.

In Joe Rogan’s wide-reaching and Trump-friendly podcast, Zuckerberg particularly complained about political “censorship” during the Corona period. The Biden administration exerted strong pressure to delete negative posts about Covid vaccinations. Zuckerberg emphasizes that he is in favor of vaccinations and believes that the advantages outweigh the advantages. “But I think while they were trying to promote this program, they were also trying to censor anyone who fundamentally argued against it,” the Meta boss said in the interview.

The most adventurous conspiracy stories and disinformation were circulating on social networks around the topic of vaccinations. However, Zuckerberg claims that people in the Biden administration also wanted to suppress legitimate criticism of vaccinations. “They pushed us super hard to delete things that were actually true,” Zuckerberg told Rogan. “They basically pushed us and said, ‘Anything that says vaccines could have side effects, you have to delete.'” Zuckerberg couldn’t say who in the government had made these demands, saying he wasn’t directly involved in the talks been, he said.

The corona pandemic hit the USA hard and claimed many lives. In addition to the German vaccine development by Biontech, the vaccines from the US companies Moderna and Johnson & Johnson were also among the first available vaccines. It is generally undisputed among experts that the vaccinations have saved many lives, with comparatively few side effects.