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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some claims about the Biden administration during Friday's episode of the podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. He claimed Joe Biden's administration officials often contacted Meta employees with demands of content removal from the company's social media platforms.
Mark told the podcast host Joe Rogan:
"Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse."
Mark claimed in the podcast that the Biden administration wanted Meta to take down a meme about the COVID-19 vaccine featuring Leonardo DiCaprio. He added that the administration asked for the removal of other memes about topics such as class action lawsuits.
As the short clip from Joe Rogan's podcast containing the Meta CEO's claims surfaced online, netizens began commenting on how he switched sides. One Instagram user compared Mark Zuckerberg to The Frontman, the antagonist in the popular Netflix series Squid Game.
In the Korean show, The Frontman disguised himself as one of the players in the game and pretended to befriend the protagonist. However, at the end of the final episode of season 2, The Frontman returned to his role as one of the game operators and stabbed the protagonist in the back by killing his best friend.
Upon hearing Mark's accusations against the Biden administration, some netizens wrote they would not trust someone who switches sides. They also noted Mark abided by the administration's demands.
Several people claimed Mark was switching sides for his own gain now that Trump is going to take over the White House. Some also opined the Meta CEO revealed this information to avoid getting on Trump or Elon Musk's bad side and further content policy change demanded by the next government.
A few others had a different opinion, as they seemingly trusted Mark Zuckerberg's claims.
Mark Zuckerberg accuses the Biden administration of pressuring censorship on Meta
Joe Rogan asked Mark Zuckerberg if Meta employees ever recorded any of the calls from the Biden administration where they made demands of content censorship. Mark, uncertain of whether or not they ever recorded any calls, answered:
"I mean their emails — the emails are published. It’s all, it’s all kind of out there."
He added:
"It basically just got to this point where we were like, no. We're not gonna, not gonna take down things that are true. That's ridiculous."
Mark asserted his team decided they would no longer take down humorous and satirical content.
The Meta CEO said at some point Biden stated to the media that Meta was killing people. Mark said after Biden's statement, different agencies and government branches began investigating and "coming after" the company. Mark calls it "brutal."
Mark Zuckerberg's claims arrived three days after he announced Meta would go through some changes in their content moderation system. He declared they would remove third-party fact-checkers from their platform to implement Community Notes like X.
