Biden administration officials phoned executives at Meta to “scream” and “curse” at them while demanding that they remove Facebook posts casting doubt on the coronavirus vaccine, Mark Zuckerberg said during a sit-down with Joe Rogan on Friday.
The billionaire tech executive said that Biden aides pressured Meta to remove content about the vaccine “that was honestly true” during the early days of the administration, when it rolled out the jabs.
“These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse,” the Meta chief said on the “Joe Rogan Experience.”
When Rogan asked whether these phone calls were recorded, Zuckerberg responded that he didn’t think so.
Zuckerberg said the Biden team wanted Meta to remove posts that correctly stated that the vaccines could induce side effects.
“Basically it just got to this point [where we told them], ‘No, we’re not going to take down this thing that was true’,” Zuckerberg said.