Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter to Congress
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee claiming that the Biden administration had pressured the company to "censor" content related to Covid-19 in 2021. Zuckerberg also said that Meta should not have temporarily suppressed a 2020 New York Post story about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop while it waited for fact-checkers to verify the article’s details.
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| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. |
| 1:27.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about Mark Zuckerberg's |
| 1:36.8 | letter to Congress, in which he talks about some of the pressures he felt as the head of Facebook |
| 1:43.4 | from the government, |
| 1:45.3 | the Biden administration, and also the FBI under the Trump administration. |
| 1:50.4 | Before we jump in, though, and pass it off to John for the main podcast, |
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