- The initial “Facebook Files” released by Rep. Jim Jordan showed that company executives had considerable concerns over complying with the White House’s censorship requests.
- One communication shows a Facebook employee circulated an email for Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg that described the administration as applying “continued pressure” on the platform.
- Clegg objected on First Amendment grounds, telling the Biden adviser that “removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the U.S.”
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Facebook Execs Fumed As Biden White House Pushed Censorship Regime
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg, 33, was called to testify after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
