Ban on ‘anti-vax’ Covid posts on Facebook was wrong, says Zuckerberg

The ban on so-called ‘anti-vax’ and ‘fake news’ posts on social media sites during the Covid-19 epidemic should never have happened, admits Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.

He said his company should have resisted pressure from the White House to ban any posts that questioned the official line about the epidemic, which included concerns about the safety of the Covid vaccines and lockdowns.  At one stage, President Joe Biden weighed in by claiming that ‘anti-vaxers’ were ‘killing people’.

In a written testament to a House of Representatives’ judiciary committee investigating the control of online content, Mr Zuckerberg stated: “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content. . .I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”

Since the censorship was implemented, studies have demonstrated that concerns about the safety of the Covid vaccines—and especially the experimental mRNA jabs—have been justified, and ‘fake news’ that the Covid virus leaked from a Wuhan laboratory is also now seen as the most plausible explanation of the epidemic’s origins.   

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