According to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, the White House pressured the social media platform to censor COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic. In an interview with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook complied with requests from the Biden administration to remove certain posts containing misinformation about COVID-19. He stated, “The background here is that COVID was an unprecedented pandemic. It was a novel thing. A lot of people had a lot of misinformation.” Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook took a more aggressive approach to content moderation during the pandemic, but he also expressed concern about the precedent set by the government’s involvement in policing online speech. The revelation has reignited debates about free speech, censorship, and the role of tech companies in moderating content on their platforms.