META CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> revealed during an interview on Joe Rogan this week that officials from the Biden administration would call his company in a state of rage demanding that they censor content.
Zuckerberg&#8217;s remarks on Friday come after Zuckerberg said in a letter back in August that the Biden administration &#8220;repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor&#8221; content, including scientifically accurate content and memes.
He said that they were trying to &#8220;censor anyone who was basically arguing against&#8221; taking vaccines.
&#8220;And they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly, were true,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, they basically pushed us and said, &#8216;Anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down.&#8217; And I was just like, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;re not going to do that. Like we&#8217;re clearly not going to do that.'&#8221;
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META CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Biden administration officials &#8220;pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly true.&#8221;
They demanded that Facebook and Instagram remove all content that mentioned that vaccines have side effects. <a href="https://t.co/Eo3F0lcljE">pic.twitter.com/Eo3F0lcljE</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1877794615765446912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
Later in the interview, Zuckerberg said that Biden officials would call his team and &#8220;scream at them and curse&#8221; demanding that they censor content.
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META CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Biden Administration officials would call his company and &#8220;scream and curse&#8221; at Facebook and Instagram officials and demand that they censor and remove content, including truthful content and memes <a href="https://t.co/U9vvnLTuhy">pic.twitter.com/U9vvnLTuhy</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1877793077118554259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Meta is immediately dropping its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring and training policies in a move that some say may be part of a broader strategy by the company to ingratiate itself with the incoming Trump administration.
The announcement was made in an internal memo from the company’s vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump">reported</a>. According to the memo, the decision was made because the &#8220;legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing.&#8221;
&#8220;The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI,” the memo says. “The term &#8216;DEI&#8217; has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.”
Gale&#8217;s memo also outlined the specific changes that would take place at the company. It will now stop using the “diverse slate approach” in hiring and end representation goals, which she said &#8220;can create the impression that decisions are being made based on race or gender.&#8221;
Meta will also abolish its DEI team and create a new role for its chief diversity officer, focusing on accessibility and engagement. The memo also explained that Meta will cease its diverse supplier agenda and &#8220;focus our efforts on supporting small and medium-sized businesses that power much of our economy.&#8221;
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The decision from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta comes days after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-fact-checkers-freak-out-call-emergency-meeting-after-zuckerberg-pulls-funding">announced</a> Facebook and Instagram would stop its independent fact-checking operations, which critics say have been used to unfairly police speech. The company also pledged a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/meta-trump-donation-inaugural-fund-zuckerberg">$1 million donation</a> to support President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Other major companies, including <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/11/27/walmart-diversity-equity-inclusion-robby-starbuck">Walmart</a> and <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/mcdonalds-corporate-diversity-starbuck-trump">McDonald’s</a>, recently announced that they would end or roll back DEI initiatives after Trump’s November victory.
Various other companies, however, have a history of engaging in anti-white, anti-Asian, and anti-male discrimination through their DEI policies. Upon entry into the executive branch, the Trump administration will have the opportunity to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-could-crack-down-on-dei-fueled-discrimination-against-whites-and-asians">crack down</a> on companies like Apple, Oracle, IBM, McKinsey and Company, and numerous others that imposed race and sex-based selection criteria on professional development opportunities.

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Hours after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes he says are designed to maximize free speech, Facebook quietly revamped its &#8220;hateful conduct&#8221; policies on Tuesday.
While Meta&#8217;s decision <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to</a> end its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zuckerberg-says-meta-restoring-free-speech-will-get-rid-of-fact-checkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact-checking program received much attention on Tuesday</a>, the social media company also quietly removed multiple references to fighting &#8220;hate speech&#8221; on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from its &#8220;hateful conduct&#8221; <a href="https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">webpage</a>.
The site displays changes made to its policies, with reams of text struck through with red lines to show removed text and green highlighted text to denote added words. Sentences that once talked about cracking down on &#8220;hate speech&#8221; were revised to address combating a more general &#8220;hateful conduct&#8221; directed against people.
The changes largely eliminate specific violations, replacing them with broader descriptions of what will be considered harmful conduct. Meta no longer says it would remove &#8220;statements of inferiority, expressions of contempt or disgust; cursing; and calls for exclusion or segregation,&#8221; but it will nix &#8220;dehumanizing speech,&#8221; &#8220;harmful stereotypes,&#8221; and &#8220;allegations of serious immorality or criminality, and slurs.&#8221; Meta will continue to remove content about &#8220;Animals in general or specific types of animals that are culturally perceived as inferior (including but not limited to: Black people and apes or ape-like creatures; Jewish people and rats; Muslim people and pigs; Mexican people and worms).&#8221; Meta added it will continue to remove &#8220;calls for exclusion or segregation when targeting people based on protected characteristics.&#8221;
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The changes came hours after a video on Tuesday in which Zuckerberg said that his company would no longer work with independent fact-checkers, end restrictions on topics like gender and immigration, and scale back filters that censored people for innocuous posts, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zuckerberg-says-meta-restoring-free-speech-will-get-rid-of-fact-checkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Meta in the updated policy said it recognizes that people sometimes share content that contains &#8220;slurs or someone else’s hate speech&#8221; to condemn such commentary or seek to use them &#8220;self-referentially or in an empowering way,&#8221; but will not axe the posts if the speaker&#8217;s intention is &#8220;clear.&#8221;
Some lines were erased but were placed elsewhere. Occasionally, sections were rewritten in different parlance. At the bottom, a note was added saying European Union users can submit legal removal requests for suspected violations of hate speech laws within their countries.
Completely gone is a section rejecting content targeting people &#8220;on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) with claims that they have or spread the novel coronavirus, are responsible for the existence of the novel coronavirus, are deliberately spreading the novel coronavirus.&#8221;
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Meta offers graphs that show how prevalent &#8220;hate speech violations&#8221; have been on Facebook and Instagram. Over the past couple of years, it&#8217;s estimated that less than .1% of views showed &#8220;violating content,&#8221; while the number of content &#8220;actioned&#8221; numbered in the millions.
The recent presidential election that brought a red wave to Washington seemed like a “cultural tipping point,&#8221; Zuckerberg said in the video. He pledged to simplify policies governing content.
&#8220;We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,&#8221; Zuckerberg said.

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Meta CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> announced Tuesday that his company was implementing major changes to its censorship and fact-checking policies across all platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. 
In a video posted on Facebook, Zuckerberg said that Meta would no longer work with independent fact-checkers, end restrictions on topics like gender and immigration, and scale back filters that censored people for innocuous posts. Zuckerberg said that Meta would focus on ensuring free expression, saying that the recent election seemed like a “cultural tipping point.&#8221; 
&#8220;We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,&#8221; Zuckerberg said. &#8220;We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.&#8221; 
He added that fact-checkers had become politically biased and untrustworthy. 
“After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy,” he said. “We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.”
Zuckerberg said restrictions on discussions on topics like immigration and gender were “out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
“What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas,” he said. 
Zuckerberg said that Meta would dial back its content filters to focus on illegal content and severe violations. He said this was a “trade off” that would lead to objectionable content being caught less often, but fewer people would be censored. 
He said Meta’s Trust and Safe and Content moderation teams would move from California to Texas. 
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Zuckerberg said Meta would allow more political content to be shared and spread across its platforms after implementing policies that filtered political content from social media feeds. He noted that the Biden administration pushed Meta to censor content. 
“By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further,” he said. 
Zuckerberg said Meta would work with the incoming Trump administration to repel censorship abroad. 
“We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” he said. “The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.”
Shortly after the presidential election, Trump met with Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago. Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-zuckerberg-have-dinner-together-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the meeting that Zuckerberg “has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this change we’re seeing all around America and the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.”
Trump campaign advisor Alex Bruesewitz <a href="https://x.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1876612074379325458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday that he met with Joe Kaplan, head of public policy at Meta, on Monday to discuss the changes.
&#8220;We covered these topics as well as the need to reinstate MAGA supporters who were previously wrongly removed from their platforms under questionable circumstances,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am hopeful that the measures will be implemented to reinstate these accounts.&#8221;

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Donald Trump fan Dana White, the CEO of UFC, has been named to the board of Meta.
Meta recently announced that Republican Joel Kaplan would be replacing leftist Nick Clegg as president of global affairs; Kaplan had been the company&#8217;s vice president of global public policy since 2011. He had also served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under former President George W. Bush.
“I’ve never been interested in joining a board of directors until I got the offer to join Meta’s board,” White <a href="https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/ufc-dana-white-joins-meta-board-1236267467/">said</a>. “I am a huge believer that social media and AI are the future. &#8230; I am very excited to join this incredible team and to learn more about this business from the inside. There is nothing I love more than building brands, and I look forward to helping take Meta to the next level.”
“Dana is the President and CEO of UFC, and he has built it into one of the most valuable, fastest growing, and most popular sports enterprises in the world,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November after Trump’s election, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/technology/dana-white-meta-board-ufc.html">stated</a>. “I’ve admired him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand.”
Trump honored White by choosing him to nominate Trump for the presidency at the Republican National Convention. White noted that when Trump asked White to nominate him, Trump said, “I only wish you didn’t have to interrupt your family trip, but I hope they understand. They love you and they know how important this is.”
“Now, think about this,” White suggested. “This man’s running for President of the United States. He’s fighting for the future of this country, and he’s concerned about interrupting my family trip. That’s the President Trump that I know. A man who truly cares about people. The mainstream media likes to push the narrative that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. I absolutely know that’s not the truth because I’ve been friends with this guy for 25 years.”
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“I’m in the tough guy business, and this man is the toughest, most resilient human being that I’ve ever met in my life,” White said. “The higher the stakes, the harder he fights, and this guy never ever gives up. So what’s at stake here? The answer is that in President Trump’s text and I quote, ‘A fight for our country.’”
“I know he is running for president to save our American dream,” White declared. “I’m living the American dream and I know the American dream is very real. Whether you were born in this country or came here from someplace else, this is the last real land of opportunity.
“This election, we all get to choose,” he said. “I know I’m going to choose strength and security. I know I’m going to choose opportunity and prosperity. I know I’m going to choose real American leadership and a real American bada**.”
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The 42-year-old man behind the terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year&#8217;s Day visited the city at least twice in recent months and used Meta smart glasses to film Bourbon Street — where he drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians, killing 14 people.
FBI New Orleans Special Agent in Charge Lyonel Myrthil said on Sunday that Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Houston stayed at a rental home for a few days beginning on October 30 and then revisited the city on November 10, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/05/us/new-orleans-attack/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. During his trip to New Orleans in late October, Jabbar rode a bike on Bourbon Street and used Meta smart glasses to record and plan his attack, according to the FBI.
On Sunday, the FBI also revealed new footage of the terrorist placing two IEDs on Bourbon Steet just over an hour before his attack. Jabbar hid the IEDs in coolers. One of the coolers was dragged a block by “someone on Bourbon Street, who we have no reason to believe was involved,&#8221; according to Myrthil. The FBI reiterated that it believes Jabbar acted alone.
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WATCH: FBI releases video of NOLA terrorist wearing Meta glasses and placing coolers with IEDs throughout the French Quarter <a href="https://t.co/UQFm3Aox2R">pic.twitter.com/UQFm3Aox2R</a>
&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1875976555182387497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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After driving his rented Ford pickup truck through Bourbon Street, Jabbar got into a shootout with police officers and was killed. The terrorist, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, was wearing the Meta smart glasses when he died, and officers found a transmitter to detonate the IEDs in the truck. Jabbar reportedly did not activate the smart glasses during his attack. <a href="https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meta smart glasses</a> can record videos, make calls, send texts, and answer questions through Meta AI. The smart glasses typically cost between $300 and $400.
Before carrying out his attack, Jabbar set fire to his rental home, a move authorities believe was meant to &#8220;hide evidence of his crimes&#8221; and potentially distract first responders before he drove through the crowd gathered on Bourbon Street. The FBI is looking into multiple trips Jabbar took in recent years, including a trip to Cairo, Egypt, from June 22 to July 3, 2023, and a trip to Ontario, Canada, from July 10 to July 13, 2023.
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“Our agents are getting answers as to where he went, who he met with, and how those trips may or may not tie into his actions here in our city of New Orleans,” Myrthil <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/05/new-orleans-attack-smart-glasses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, recently became radicalized. In a video he recorded in the rented pickup truck on his way to carry out the attack, Jabbar said, “I wanted to record this message for my family. I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/new-orleans-attack-shamsud-din-jabbar-isis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. In the video, Jabbar added that he considered killing his family members so they could “witness the killing of the apostates.”

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President-elect Donald Trump and META CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> had dinner together on Wednesday night at Mar-a-Lago.
&#8220;It’s an important time for the future of American Innovation,&#8221; a META spokesperson said in a statement. &#8220;Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming Administration.&#8221;
However, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/us/politics/mark-zuckerberg-trump-meeting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the meeting was &#8220;initiated&#8221; by Zuckerberg as he seeks to &#8220;insulate Meta&#8221; over any negative action his company could face from the incoming administraiton.
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Statement from a Meta spokesman on Mark Zuckerberg’s dinner with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
“It’s an important time for the future of American Innovation. Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members… <a href="https://t.co/O5qeShnxWs">pic.twitter.com/O5qeShnxWs</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1861943500990034373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, confirmed the meeting and said that Zuckerberg “has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this change we’re seeing all around America and the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.”
&#8220;He&#8217;s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under President Trump&#8217;s leadership,&#8221; he added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a> on Mark Zuckerberg visting President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago:
&#8220;He&#8217;s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under President Trump&#8217;s leadership.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lSrU03BhgU">pic.twitter.com/lSrU03BhgU</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1861965750266732608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
The Times noted that the 40-year-old tech entrepreneur has had a strained relationship with Trump ever since Trump entered politics. He did call Trump after he was shot over the summer and referred to Trump&#8217;s reaction immediately after being shot as &#8220;bada**.&#8221;
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Conservatives have repeatedly accused the company of censoring their voices on the company&#8217;s platforms, especially Facebook.
Trump <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-election-book-00176639">wrote</a> in his book &#8220;Save America&#8221; that Zuckerberg had plotted against him in the 2020 presidential election and had threatened that he could be criminally charged if he did so in 2024.
“He told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me,” Trump wrote. “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
Zuckerberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zuckerberg-biden-harris-repeatedly-pressured-us-to-censor-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> over summer that his company was pressured by the Biden administration to censor content during 2020.
“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,” he said in an August letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). “Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.”
He said that he made choices under pressure from the Biden administration that in hindsight he would not make again.
He said that the company made a mistake by temporarily demoting a New York Post story during the 2020 election about Hunter Biden’s laptop after officials falsely suggested that it was part of a “Russian disinformation operation.”
“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” he said. “We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again – for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S while waiting for fact-checkers.”
Zuckerberg said that he also wanted to be politically neutral moving forward and that he made a mistake by hiring employees who tried to steer him toward the political Left.
“The political environment, I think I didn’t have much sophistication around, and I think I just fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zuckerberg-admits-he-messed-up-by-getting-too-involved-in-politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview with The New York Times the following month.
“I think it’s going to take another 10 years or so for us to fully work through that cycle before our brand is back to the place that it could have been, if I hadn’t messed up in the first place,” he added.

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Facebook admitted Tuesday that it mistakenly removed an ad from Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers that called to keep men out of women&#8217;s sports.
The Rogers campaign told The Daily Wire that the ad — which slams Rogers&#8217; opponent, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, for supporting trans-identifying men competing against women — was posted to Facebook last Friday before Meta took it down. With just around two weeks until the election, the Rogers campaign repeatedly tried to post the ad, but it was removed by the social media platform three more times over the weekend.
According to the Rogers campaign, Facebook&#8217;s parent company initially said the ad was removed for &#8220;Unacceptable Business Practices,&#8221; but then clarified that the ad was removed &#8220;incorrectly&#8221; by the tech giant&#8217;s &#8220;automated review systems.&#8221; The ad hits Slotkin over her support for the Equality Act, which seeks to allow boys to play in girls&#8217; sports.
Rogers re-posted the ad — which was made by the political action committee, Michigan Victory Committee — on X Monday, writing, &#8220;Time and again, big tech activists at Facebook have REMOVED our ad exposing Slotkin’s failures to protect our daughters. Biological men should not compete in women’s sports. This is about FAIRNESS for our daughters and privacy for women.&#8221;
&#8220;Thankfully, people like @ElonMusk believe in free speech and that voters deserve to know the truth,&#8221; Rogers added.
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BREAKING: Time and again, big tech activists at Facebook have REMOVED our ad exposing Slotkin’s failures to protect our daughters. Biological men should not compete in women’s sports. This is about FAIRNESS for our daughters and privacy for women.
Thankfully, people like… <a href="https://t.co/M5WuqyjlPH">https://t.co/M5WuqyjlPH</a>
&mdash; Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1848458803794047484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A Meta spokesman confirmed in a statement to The Daily Wire that the removal &#8220;was an error and the ad was restored.&#8221; The tech giant has increasingly relied on artificial intelligence (AI) for content moderation, especially after the COVID pandemic and vaccine rollout. In 2021, Meta <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/metas-new-ai-system-tackles-harmful-content/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a new AI system &#8220;that can adapt more easily to take action on new or evolving types of harmful content faster.&#8221;
&#8220;Harmful content continues to evolve rapidly — whether fueled by current events or by people looking for new ways to evade our systems — and it’s crucial for AI systems to evolve alongside it. But it typically takes several months to collect and label thousands, if not millions, of examples necessary to train each individual AI system to spot a new type of content,&#8221; Meta said at the time. &#8220;To tackle this, we’ve built and recently deployed Few-Shot Learner (FSL), an AI technology that can adapt to take action on new or evolving types of harmful content within weeks instead of months.&#8221;
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In the final week of the 2024 campaign, Meta &#8220;will also block new political, electoral and social issue ads&#8221; while allowing ads &#8220;that have previously run before this restriction period.&#8221;
&#8220;Our rationale for this restriction period remains the same as it has since 2020: in the final days of an election, we recognize there may not be enough time to contest new claims made in ads,&#8221; Meta <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/11/how-meta-is-planning-for-elections-in-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Rogers has recently gained ground on Slotkin, trailing by just 2.1 points as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/michigan/rogers-vs-slotkin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> average.

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Meta chief executive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> has acknowledged he “messed up” by letting his companies Facebook and Meta get too involved in politics.
Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, and Whats App. Zuckerberg spoke at a podcast event in San Francisco earlier this month at which he bemoaned the fact the his companies and their employees had weighed in too much about political matters.
“The political environment, I think I didn’t have much sophistication around, and I think I just fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem,” Zuckerberg said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/mark-zuckerberg-trump-politics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. “I think it’s going to take another 10 years or so for us to fully work through that cycle before our brand is back to the place that it could have been, if I hadn’t messed up in the first place.”
Attempting to establish a positive relationship with former President Trump, Zuckerberg has spoken with him twice in the last few months.
According to the Times, at a conference this summer, Zuckerberg said he “regretted hiring employees at his philanthropy who tried to push him further to the left on some causes”
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In an August 26 <a href="https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDFFiles/Mark-Zuckerberg-Letter-on-Govt-Censorship.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Zuckerberg wrote:
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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. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of thus pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
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Zuckerberg has hired Republican strategist Brian Baker to ameliorate his position with right-wing media and Republican officials, the Times noted.
After Meta removed images of the assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Zuckerberg called Trump to apologize.

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Social media giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meta</a> announced on Tuesday that its platform Instagram will be instituting new privacy settings that are &#8220;built-in&#8221; for teenagers&#8217; accounts.
After facing criticism for an apparent lack of safety surrounding minors&#8217; Instagram accounts, Meta <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/instagram-teen-accounts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the new &#8220;Teen Accounts&#8221; will protect young social media users while putting the parents in control. Teen Accounts will &#8220;limit who can contact them and the content they see&#8221; by keeping minors&#8217; accounts private, meaning other Instagram users cannot see posts from or contact a Teen Account unless the teenager accepts their follow requests.
&#8220;We know parents want to feel confident that their teens can use social media to connect with their friends and explore their interests, without having to worry about unsafe or inappropriate experiences. We understand parents’ concerns, and that’s why we’re reimagining our apps for teens with new Teen Accounts,&#8221; Meta said in a statement. &#8220;This new experience is designed to better support parents, and give them peace of mind that their teens are safe with the right protections in place.&#8221;
Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — along with the leaders of TikTok and X — testified before Congress on how his social media empire was addressing concerns from users and parents about privacy and the effects of social media on children. In one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-sorry-for-everything-mark-zuckerberg-faces-families-harmed-by-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tense exchange</a> during the hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asked if Zuckerberg wanted to apologize to the families of children who were victimized by people on social media.
&#8220;I’m sorry for everything you have all been through. No one should go through the things that your families have suffered,” he told some of the families who were in attendance.
Under Instagram&#8217;s new Teen Accounts, teens will be shielded from any messages from people they are not &#8220;already connected to,&#8221; according to Meta. Additionally, Teen Accounts will be limited in the type of content they see on Instagram as the app&#8217;s &#8220;sensitive content control&#8221; will further limit content that shows &#8220;people fighting&#8221; or content that &#8220;promotes cosmetic procedures.&#8221;
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Meta added that it will &#8220;automatically turn on the most restrictive version of our anti-bullying feature, Hidden Words, so that offensive words and phrases will be filtered out of teens’ comments and DM requests.&#8221; Teen users under 16 years old will now have to add a parent or guardian to their account if they want to change any of the built-in privacy settings.
Teen Accounts will include time limit reminders, telling young users to close out of the app after 60 minutes each day, and all notifications will be muted between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Meta said it will enforce this new change by requiring teens to &#8220;verify their age in more places.&#8221;
&#8220;Teens may lie about their age and that’s why we’re requiring them to verify their age in more places, like if they attempt to use a new account with an adult birthday. We’re also building technology to proactively find accounts belonging to teens, even if the account lists an adult birthday,&#8221; Meta said. &#8220;This technology will allow us to proactively find these teens and place them in the same protections offered by Teen Account settings. We’ll start testing this change in the US early next year.&#8221;

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter on Monday that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly pressured his company — which includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and more —  to censor content that is protected free speech.
Zuckerberg made the admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) this week in which he said that his goal moving forward was to &#8220;be neutral and not play a role one way or another&#8221; for either any political party or ideology. He said he doesn&#8217;t even want the appearance of playing a role and will not be making political contributions.
&#8220;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&#8217;t agree,&#8221; he said in the letter. &#8220;Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.&#8221;
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&#8220;I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I also think we made some choices that. with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn&#8217;t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we&#8217;re ready to push back if something like this happens again.&#8221;
He said that the company made a mistake by temporarily demoting a New York Post story during the 2020 election about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop after officials falsely suggested that it was part of a &#8220;Russian disinformation operation.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn&#8217;t have demoted the story,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen again &#8211; for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S while waiting for fact-checkers.&#8221;
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He said that he does not plan on making any political contributions during this cycle after he gave money to support electoral infrastructure in 2020 that led to accusations that he was trying to help Democrats because of where the money was reportedly deployed.
&#8220;My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.&#8221;

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Big tech employees overwhelmingly support<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin"> Wisconsin</a> Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D.), contributing tens of thousands of dollars to her campaign while giving no money to Republican challenger Eric Hovde, according to a review of Federal Election Commission data.
Employees and high level executives at the Big Five — Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — are stepping in to help Baldwin amid her contentious campaign for a third term in the Senate. The notoriously left-learning tech industry has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks as Google and Meta face accusations of censoring information about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. 
Baldwin has received nearly $70,000 dollars from employees of the Big Five, with over half coming from employees at Google,<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00326801&amp;committee_id=C00830687&amp;contributor_employer=Microsoft&amp;contributor_employer=Meta&amp;contributor_employer=Google&amp;contributor_employer=Facebook&amp;contributor_employer=Apple&amp;contributor_employer=Amazon&amp;contributor_employer=Alphabet&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024"> according</a> to a Daily Wire review of Federal Election Commission data. Hovde, a Wisconsin businessman, appears to have received<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00870139&amp;contributor_employer=Alphabet&amp;contributor_employer=Amazon&amp;contributor_employer=Apple&amp;contributor_employer=Facebook&amp;contributor_employer=Google&amp;contributor_employer=Meta&amp;contributor_employer=Microsoft&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024"> no donations</a> to his Hovde for Wisconsin or Hovde Victory Committee from workers at those tech companies.
Employees and executives of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, have given at least $35,520 in donations to Baldwin so far this election cycle.
Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, has donated $6,600 to Baldwin this election cycle while Google CMO Lorraine Twohill gave Baldwin $3,300. Fernando Pereira, a vice president and engineering fellow at Google, gave $1,500 to Baldwin while Vinton Cerf, another Google executive, gave the Democratic senator $3,300. 
Donations from employees at the other four tech giants were similarly lopsided, though smaller in number. Amazon employees gave Baldwin $13,172, while Microsoft employees gave her $12,175. Workers at Apple donated just $4,575, while Meta employees gave $2,721. 
While Baldwin won her last election in 2018 by over 10 points, her race this November is expected to be closer, with Wisconsin projected to be one of the battleground states that determines the result of the presidential election. Hovde, who locked up the Republican nomination on Tuesday, is backed by Trump. 
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Zach Bannon, a spokesman for Hovde, said that the tech donations showed that Baldwin is a “bought and paid for corporate special interest career politician.”
“She sides with the big-tech donors that fund her campaign over the concerns of everyday Wisconsinites, which is why the people of Wisconsin are tired of corrupt career politicians and are ready for change,” he told The Daily Wire. 
As a senator, Baldwin has<a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/search?access=p&amp;as_dt=i&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;as_lq=&amp;as_occt=any&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_q=&amp;as_sitesearch=&amp;client=baldwin&amp;sntsp=0&amp;filter=0&amp;getfields=&amp;lr=&amp;num=15&amp;numgm=3&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;partialfields=&amp;proxycustom=&amp;proxyreload=0&amp;proxystylesheet=default_frontend&amp;requiredfields=&amp;sitesearch=&amp;sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1&amp;start=0&amp;ud=1&amp;q=misinformation"> called</a> for crackdowns on alleged “misinformation” on topics from monkeypox to COVID vaccines, frequently calling on companies like Facebook and Google to further restrict certain information. 
For example, in January 2021 Baldwin<a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/tech-leaders-combat-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation"> joined</a> efforts to urge social media platforms like Google and Facebook to restrict posts critical of COVID vaccines. 
“While we understand that your companies have implemented policies regarding the removal of vaccine-related misinformation and dedicated resources to stop the spread of misinformation, we believe more must be done. It is imperative that you be transparent about the amount of harmful misinformation that appears on your platforms and the effectiveness of your efforts to remove this content, so that public health organizations and experts can respond appropriately,” Baldwin wrote. 
Baldwin did not return a request for an interview about her stance on “misinformation” and Big Tech. 
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The left bias of Google employees is no surprise, as donations were<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-overwhelmingly-back-warnock-other-senate-democrat-candidates"> similarly lopsided</a> in key Senate races during the 2022 election. The search engine has consistently asserted that it is politically neutral and not biased against conservatives. 
However, in the weeks following the assassination attempt on Trump, users noticed that Google would not autocomplete searches related to the attack. In response, Republican lawmakers<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-expand-probe-into-google-meta-over-alleged-censorship-of-trump-assassination-attempt-info"> have launched</a> an investigation into the platform, calling for comprehensive documentation of the company’s policies and programs. 
None of the Big Five returned requests for comment.

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