Commonwealth Policy Center

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to Congress that officials from the Biden Administration pressured Facebook to censor content about COVID. He also admitted that Facebook should not have censored content about Hunter Biden before the 2020 presidential election. A congressional investigation found that Facebook originally resisted government pressure to engage in censorship but eventually gave in. Zuckerberg said, “My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role.” Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter serve as digital public squares. And since this is the case, it’s wrong for any government in a free society to suppress the truth for political reasons.