Mark Zuckerberg was shut down by Joe Rogan in a recent podcast appearance where the Facebook founder (now “Meta”) continues his attempted rebrand.
Zuckerberg is trying to distance himself from his previous positions since the presidential election, which certainly is a coincidence if he’s legitimately changed them. He has removed third-party factcheckers from Facebook in favor of a community notes system like the one Elon Musk created on Twitter/ X. He has also rewritten platform guidelines on free speech and appointed UFC president and Trump backer Dana White to Meta’s board of directors.
During the Rogan appearance Zuckerberg accused the Biden administration government of pushing a pro-censorship agenda onto Meta during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true,” Zuckerberg said, adding that the administration also pushed his company to remove memes from the site. “They basically pushed us and said anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.”
