Zuckerberg Sits Down with Joe Rogan, Talks Biden Admin. Pressure for Censorship & New Direction for Facebook

On Friday, the PowerfulJRE channel on YouTube released the latest episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" with a very special guest.

Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with host Joe Rogan for a nearly three-hour conversation that ranged from the pair talking about censorship to election interference to Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts training.

I'm not going to give away too much, but early on in the podcast, Zuckerberg spoke about the pressures he faced from President Joe Biden's administration to censor anything that flew in the face of the narratives the regime was attempting to paint during the COVID-19 pandemic, including any skepticism over the vaccine.

"Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse," Zuckerberg told Rogan. "And it's like, 'These documents are...it's all kind of out there.'"

"It got to this point where we were like, 'No, we're not going to take down things that are true,'" Zuckerberg added. "That's ridiculous. 

Zuckerberg and Rogan spent a good portion of the first hour talking about the increased censorship over the past 10 years or so, and the Meta CEO said that he would sit back and look at what was happening, which eventually led to the drastic changes we're seeing from the company now.

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As for the naysayers that are claiming the moves by Zuckerberg are purely for political reasons to save his own neck, he told Rogan that these current moves are not politically motivated and that he didn't want to make the changes during election season and be accused of helping or hurting any candidate.

Zuckerberg also intimated that it's never a good time to make company-changing moves when you're constantly scrutinized for everything you do, so you have to pick the best time to do it and just make the moves then.

It was a particularly interesting conversation between the pair and worth a listen for those who might want more insight into what seems to be, at least, a slightly different, "more human" side of Zuckerberg than we've been privy to in the past.

For the full episode, watch below: