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Mark Zuckerberg criticizes the Biden administration for pressuring it to censor COVID-related content.

Plus, China finds a way to access banned NVIDIA chips and what a string of failures among clean fuel startups could mean for the world's climate goals.

Zooming out, that's really bad news for a lot of sectors of the economy that need hydrogen and biofuels to reduce emissions.

It's Tuesday August 27th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News.

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Meta-Ccee, Mark Zuckerberg has criticized what he says was improper White House pressure to censor

coronavirus-related content and said that he doesn't plan to repeat 2020 efforts to fund local elections, a practice that had drawn rebuke

from Republicans. In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican,

Zuckerberg said it was wrong to bow to

Biden administration pressure in 2021 to restrict certain COVID-19 related

content on Facebook, including humor and satire, and vowed to reject any such future efforts.

Jordan has been targeting big tech companies in general and Zuckerberg in particular over what

he alleges is censorship of

conservative views. A White House spokesman didn't immediately respond to a

request for comment. The White House had previously said its discussions with social media companies aimed to promote vaccine adoption, given fears at the time that vaccine hesitancy was being driven by false information seen on Facebook.

Special Counsel Jack Smith is pushing to revive his prosecution of Donald Trump

over the former president's retention of classified documents after leaving the White House, telling an appeals court that the federal judge in Florida who tossed the case in July made a series of errors and ignored decades of precedent in doing so.

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