The Biden Administration pressured Big Tech to silence opposing views of Americans. That is the gist of a letter penned yesterday by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and the committee.

The admission was explosive but not earth-shattering for so many medical professionals and regular people who were shadow-banned, silenced, and deplatformed for sharing contrarian opinions, information, and even satire on COVID-19.

Zuckerberg explained:

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”

Facebook took responsibility for caving to pressure, but Zuckerberge added that “government pressure was wrong” and he regretted not being “more outspoken about it.”

The committee boiled the letter down to 3 takeaways:

  1. Biden-Harris Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans. 
  1. Facebook censored Americans. 
  1. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. 

This admission probably feels too little, too late for the users who lost their businesses or jobs for sharing opinions, satire, or misinformation that turned out to be accurate and true.

In June, Zuckerberg admitted that much of what was labeled misinformation in the early COVID days has been proven fact or truth:

Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions. 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 more debatable or true. That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust.”

Zuckerberg hopes to push back more forcefully in the future.

In addition, he asserted that Facebook was wrong to censor the New York Post’s Biden corruption story at the request of federal officials. So if the Hunter Biden laptop is readl, authenticated, and proves misdealings, will Congress act upon that?

Finally, Zuckerberg vowed not to flood local elections this cycle with unaffectionately named Zukerbucks after they were panned for being partisan—only helping Democrats. 

Here are my takeaways from this explosive letter: 

  1. Social media empowered the left’s fascist tendencies. Zuckerberg blamed the Biden-Harris Administration, not the Trump Administration. For all of the talk about fascism on the right, the left stopped at nothing to control information for the American people.
  2. Don’t turn regulation over to those who want more censorship. While conservatives genuinely want to stop Big Tech censorship, their liberal colleagues want to grant more antitrust enforcement power to federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on conservative speech, not expand it.
  3. The truth always prevails. Whether it’s misinformation that proves to be fact or the federal government bullying companies to censor media stories, the truth always makes its way through the darkness and into the light.

First, Biden-Harris’s censorship campaigns through X.com (formerly Twitter) were exposed. Now, Facebook is coming forward with its experience. 

One day, we’ll finally be able to paint a full picture of just how far-reaching the federal government’s information manipulation went and how those efforts shaped policy and politics.