Tue Jun 13, 2023 – 2:10 pm EDTTue Jun 13, 2023 – 2:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that Facebook censored information about COVID-19 that turned out to be true.
In an interview with the popular podcaster Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg said that during the early days of the COVID scare, “there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions.”
“And, you know, unfortunately, I think a lot of the kind of establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being, you know, more debatable or true.”
“That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust,“ the tech mogul said. “And so I do think that the questions around how to manage that are very nuanced.”
Zuckerberg went on to say that he is generally in favor of only censoring “harms” that “everyone agrees are bad,” like “inciting violence,” terrorism, or sexual exploitation of children.
The Meta CEO said that “I think that you want to reserve the kind of censorship
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