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Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan how the Biden administration forced Meta to censor a Covid meme - and said the president's staff would scream and swear at his workers to remove content they didn't like.
The Meta chief, 40, said he was stunned when the White House got in touch to demand a photo of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV in his movie Once Upon A Time in Hollywood was taken down.
They were irritated by the caption added to it, which read: '10 years from now you're going to see an ad that says if you took a Covid vaccine you'd be eligible for a payment.'
Zuck said the meme was 'sort of like a class action lawsuit type meme' and personally deemed it little more than a harmless political joke.
After being told to take down the meme, Zuckerberg claimed he and his team responded: 'No we're not we're not going to take down humor.'
Shockingly, Zuckerberg also told of how Biden's cronies would demand to censor information that was accurate, including that Covid vaccines can cause side effects.
Zuckerberg said the White House 'pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true', and 'said anything that says vaccines have side effects, you need to take down.'
'Basically, it just got to this point where we were like no, we're not going to take down things that are true,' Zuckerberg said. 'That's ridiculous.'
The Biden administration spent much of the Covid crisis trying to downplay a rare but serious heart condition called myocarditis that was linked to vaccines to tackle the virus.
... In Friday's episode, Zuckerberg said a turning point for his approach to censorship under Biden came when the president publicly said social media memes combatting his pandemic narrative were 'killing people.'
'All these different agencies and branches of government just started investigating and coming after our company,' he said.
'It was brutal, brutal.'
Zuckerberg added that the threats from the Biden administration to take down content 'sounds illegal' and potentially breached posters First Amendment right to free speech.
Rogan said the demands were clearly a 'massive overstepping' from the federal government, adding: 'And also, you weren't killing people.
'This is the thing with all of this, they suppressed so much information about things that people should be doing, regardless of whether or not you believe in the vaccine.'
'Did you record any of those phone calls? God, I want to listen,' he added.
Rogan, who was an outspoken sceptic of the Covid-19 vaccine, seemed stunned by Zuckerberg's claims over the 'brutal' approach the Biden administration took to censorship during the pandemic.
The comedian and podcaster argued that one of the most striking aspects was the White House's suppression of health remedies that would benefit people's daily lives anyway.
'They were suppressing this stuff because they didn't want people to think that you could get away with not taking the vaccine, which is really crazy' he argued.
'It scared the shit out of a lot of people.'
February 3, 2023
Harvard University has asked its anti-Donald Trump meme expert to leave the university, according to the student newspaper.
“Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf is forcing out online misinformation expert Joan M. Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy,” the student newspaper reported. ...
Donovan (pictured) has claimed that Trump and conservatives were victorious in 2016 because they were better at making memes.
“Hillary Clinton was not memeable nor was she meme savvy and even when she launched memetic campaigns online, even with her branding, as my class knows, it’s been hijacked by the right,” Donovan said at a September 2022 panel, nearly six years after the presidential election of 2016.
“So when she came out and said things like the alt-right or basket of deplorables or wrote about Pepe [a cartoon frog] on her website it was just like anything online that had to do with Hillary Clinton was incredibly corrosive,” Donovan said.
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