Zuckerberg’s Pseudo Apology

Assessing Mark Zuckerberg's interview on the Joe Rogan Podcast

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Meta CEO and CEA (Chief Executive Apologist) Mark Zuckerberg recently informed Joe Rogan that the Biden administration pressured Facebook employees to censor content that questioned the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic, including content that raised concerns about Covid vaccine safety.

Anyone who was interested in this issue knew this already. U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House’s Committee on Government Weaponization issued a report on Federal Government Censorship and Americans’ First Amendment Rights months ago.

What I found fascinating about Zuckerberg’s admissions to Rogan about his multi-billion-dollar corporation becoming a vassal of government censors was his apparent ease while doing so. He explained hammering the first amendment rights of American as comfortably as a local restaurateur lets you know that your pepperoni pizza is going to be delivered a few minutes late.

“Sorry about. We violated your Constitutional rights. We’ll throw in some mozzarella sticks.”

Zuckerberg does what chief executives often do – he blames the underlings. He now admits that the fact checkers he hired went too far in the censoring of community posts. “We put a system in place but things kind of veered from there,” Zuckerberg stated as he moved his hand as though wiping away a minor distraction. He notes that some of the people who did Meta’s “fact-checking were used to doing political fact-checking, so it just kind of veered in that direction.”

Yes, it did.

In explaining what went wrong with the fact checking system he put in place at Facebook, Zuckerberg hands move in a circular fashion as though he was trying to orchestrate the violin section of an orchestra. He then folds his hands in front of his chest to demonstrate sincerity when he says, “the point was not to judge people’s opinions.” It is noted that Zuckerberg looks down, shakes his head and wets his lips when he explains that the intent was to “fact check the stuff that seemed the most extreme, but it was just never accepted by people broadly.”

No, it was not.

Those extreme comments were on topics like theory that Covid originated from a lab leak, which it apparently did, or people reporting that they suffered vaccine injuries, which many did.

Zuckerberg refers to his fact checkers as “they” – not “us” or ‘we” and certainly not, “me” or “I.” He describes the censorship he imposed, at the insistence of the Biden administration, as being “an exercise” that became “something out of, like, 1984…a slippery slope…it got to a point where it was destroying so much trust.”

Yes, it did.

Zuckerberg claimed that he could not spend too much time on what his company was doing to freedom of speech because of all the important work he needed to do to grow his company.

And all the while, Zuckerberg calmly keeps his big blue, apologetic eyes focused on Joe Rogan.

When discussing the Covid pandemic, Zuckerberg once again looks down, shakes his head and wets his lips when he explains, “That was really tricky…at the beginning, Covid was like, a legitimate public health crisis.” Zuckerberg then provides an explanation of his censorship of criticism of Covid policies and vaccines, presenting an argument that he claims the Supreme Court has greenlighted and “says you can’t yell fire in a crowded theatre. There are times when, if there’s an emergency, your ability to speak can be temporarily curtailed in order to get an emergency under control. I was sympathetic to that.”

I am unaware of any emergency exception clause to first amendment that comes into play when the government needs to get control of an emergency. If there was such a provision, the government would use it for everything.

Imagine Governor Gavin Newsome having the right to silence negative media coverage of California’s handling of the fires destroying Los Angeles. “Hey, you can’t criticize me now. This is an emergency.”

Zuckerberg notes that things became really extreme “during the Biden administration when they were trying to roll out the vaccine program.” He describes the events as though they occurred several years ago, during the rule of Caesar Augustus.

As of this writing, Biden is still wandering around the White House waiting for his ice cream.

Zuckerberg explains that he is “pro-vaccine” but that the Biden administration arm twisters jumped ugly, “while they pushed out that program, they also tried to censor anyone who was arguing against it.”

Once again, we hear about those people, way over there. Them people. They.

Zuckerberg’s hands motion down, denoting something is being suppressed. What was being suppressed was reports of vaccine “side effects.” In other words, vaccine injuries. “They pushed super hard to take things down that were honestly true.” He then opens his palm upward as one might when saying “What could I do?” Oddly, Zuckerberg stated, “We just weren’t going to do that.”

Except that Zuckerberg’s company did exactly that. Anyone who claimed vaccine injuries on any of Meta’s platforms found themselves disciplined by fact checkers.

Joe Rogan notices Zuckerberg’s tendency to point to ‘those people over there’ and finally asks who “they” were and whether there were recordings of the conversations. Zuckerberg answers that it was Biden’s censorship goon squad. He clarifies that he never received the calls and that the poor bastards who worked for him were the victims of the verbal abuse.

Zuckerberg was above the fray, wandering the social media stratosphere of the metaverse.

In the end, Zuckerberg did what he needed to do in the Rogan interview – explain his company’s actions, somehow, pseudo-apologize, somehow, and demonstrate that he will be a good boy in the future.

It is time to curry favor with new administration.

To show his sincerity, Zuckerberg recently gave all those misguided fact checkers pink slips.

The problem is that Zuckerberg and his brow beaten employees were not really the victims here. They were willing instruments of the Biden administration’s censorship machine that slaughtered the First Amendment rights of his fellow citizens.

Americans were the victims.

Doctors with health advice that could have saved lives were censored. Many deplatformed.

Scientists who expressed that the Covid Pandemic started due to a lab leak were shut down.

People who reported that they suffered vaccine injuries, and wanted to get support from friends and family, were silenced.

What Biden and Zuckerberg did was disgraceful.

Although it would have taken moral courage, Zuckerberg could have said ‘I’m not doing this.’

But he didn’t. Instead, Zuckerberg said nothing and became part of the apparatus of Biden’s version of the Ministry of Truth that Orwell wrote about in 1984.

In the end, it is not them or they who are responsible.

Truth be told, Mr. Zuckerberg, it is you.