Good on Mark Zuckerberg for telling the truth...four years after Big Tech won the election for Joe Biden

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Mark Zuckerberg — the Big Tech CEO behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — has finally admitted that he regrets folding under pressure from the Biden administration to censor content.

Better late than never, I guess.

Here’s what he said in a letter addressed to Rep. Jim Jordan, the chair of the House judiciary committee that has been looking into Big Tech censorship:

Look, it’s great that Mark Zuckerberg (unlike too many leaders of other Big Tech firms) is speaking out against pressure to censor COVID-19 content. But I don’t want you to miss the second part: the stuff about the FBI and the Biden administration pushing disinformation to hide the truth from the American people and rig the election for Joe Biden.

In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election. That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply. It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story. We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again -- for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.

Two things can be true at once.

1. If Mark Zuckerberg is telling the truth — that his companies’ policies have changed regarding content moderation and censorship — then this is a good thing.

2. Facebook’s capitulation to the FBI (and therefore the Biden administration) during the 2020 election was election interference that helped win Joe Biden the White House.

And yes, I mean it.

Back in November 2020, the Media Research Center and The Polling Company surveyed 1,750 Biden voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (i.e. the swing states that decided the election).

And what did they discover?

45.1% of the Biden voters who were polled said they were “unaware of the financial scandal enveloping Biden and his son, Hunter,” and that “full awareness of the Hunter Biden scandal would have led 9.4% of Biden voters to abandon the Democratic candidate.”

Just 9.4%! What difference could that make? All the difference.

Let me explain.