The Subject: Mark Zuckerberg’s apology for bowing to Biden administration stress to censor Meta customers.
It’s good to see Mark Zuckerberg lastly realized he was getting used as a device by the left (“Zuck Comes Clear,” Editorial, Aug. 28).
He confirmed what most of us suspected all alongside.
Democrats and the Biden administration pressured Meta to make use of its huge social-media attain to gaslight the American individuals about all the pieces from COVID to the 2020 presidential election.
This Orwellian nightmare, partially, enabled 4 years of Democratic overreach and incompetence that has wrecked our economic system, destroyed our border and weakened nationwide safety.
Mark Zuckerberg is a great man.
Let’s hope he’s sensible sufficient to proceed to see by the lies the Dems have been serving up for years.
Even when this implies getting kicked out of the “cool” children group of American elites.
Michael D’Auria
Bronxville
Democracy requires that the general public be correctly knowledgeable, but it’s patently clear that the Biden-Harris authorities sought to misinform the American public as a result of it didn’t need them to know the reality.
That is shameful.
One instance of this disregard for the First Modification was the censorship of this newspaper, which uncovered the Hunter Biden laptop computer story.
This censorship harm our nation.
All these concerned in censoring free speech should be uncovered and punished, with no exceptions.
Michael Pravica
Henderson, Nev.
Zuckerberg has lastly admitted that his platform was pressured by the federal government to suppress articles, together with the one from The Put up on the Hunter Biden laptop computer story.
How does this not depend as election interference?
Zuckerberg ought to be introduced again in entrance of Congress to reply questions underneath oath.
Not solely did he primarily work to affect an election, however he prevented People from accessing essential data relating to COVID from well-known and extremely regarded medical doctors.
Rob Cerone
Manhattan
Meta proprietor Mark Zuckerberg got here out on Tuesday and mentioned the quiet half out loud, confirming what many clever and knowledgeable People already suspected, that the Justice Division used its energy to stress Fb, X (previously often known as Twitter) and different social-media corporations to suppress correct details about COVID — as nicely reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer, together with stifling the New York Put up’s account.
It was and stays a brazen show of corrupt federal energy getting used to affect an election for Democrats’ benefit.
Don’t be fooled by Zuckerberg’s sudden pang of guilt.
Like all the pieces else he does, that is all designed to ahead Zuckerberg’s agenda.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
Isn’t it humorous?
I’m continuously bombarded with advertisements, columns, tweets and messages denouncing former President Donald Trump as a “dictator” an “extremist” and “enemy of democracy.”
But Trump peacefully reconciles together with his rivals and makes collegiate, bipartisan gestures to share his platform with Robert Kennedy Jr., whereas the Democratic Celebration both leans on media shops to suppress destructive information, as with Zuckerberg’s admission that the Biden administration has interfered with Fb, or tries to have political opponents barred from the ballots, as with the social gathering’s makes an attempt to dam the Cornel West and Jill Stein campaigns in a number of states.
For co-called “saviors of the republic,” Democrats’ conduct could be very bizarre.
Robert Frazer
Salford, England
This apology alerts a Trump victory in November (“Don’s guide rips Marky malarkey,” Aug. 29).
Zuckerberg is admitting to censorship as a result of he should be seeing the variety of Fb customers which are optimistic towards Trump.
Ever the politico, Zuckerberg will need Meta to be on the correct aspect when the election is over — and probably keep away from prosecution for all of the reckless issues he and his firm did.
Val Formica
Jensen Seaside, Fla.
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