Journalist Alex Berenson said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's admission that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content, will impact his legal battle with President Biden.
Berenson has long alleged that White House officials and Pfizer executives conspired to silence her skepticism about the COVID vaccine, and she is suing Biden, White House officials and Pfizer bosses, accusing them of violating her First Amendment rights by pushing for her removal from Twitter after she expressed concerns about the vaccines.
Zuckerberg made the startling admission in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more than a year after providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of its investigation into content moderation on online platforms.
“If you look at the work of Jim Jordan's committee, you can see the pressure. It wasn't one phone call or one email. There was significant pressure on Facebook and Twitter, and to a lesser extent Amazon and YouTube, for months and months from the Biden administration,” Berenson told Fox News Digital.
META CEO ADMITS BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION PRESSURED COMPANY TO CENSOR AMERICANS
Journalist Alex Berenson said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's admission that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans will help in its ongoing legal battle.
Berenson said it was “nice” to see Zuckerberg admit it.
“It's important to my lawsuit, there's no question about it. We're going to subpoena that letter, as we amend Berenson v. Biden, which we are doing,” he said.
The former New York Times reporter said the amended lawsuit is coming “very soon” and will include information that will shock Americans. Berenson said he has new information about what led to his ouster from Twitter in 2021 at the height of the vaccine debate, before Elon Musk bought it and renamed the company X.
Twitter reinstated her account in July 2022 after she took legal action. The company settled the matter and even admitted that Berenson's tweets “should not have led to the suspension.”
“I was banned and my account was deleted, which is a profound form of censorship in my opinion,” Berenson said.
“We now have new information about exactly how it happened and what Twitter's top executives thought about it,” he continued. “Anyone who looks at it fairly will find it shocking. It will be disturbing.”
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President Biden and journalist Alex Berenson.
Berenson's lawsuit named Biden, White House advisers Andrew Slavitt and Robert Flaherty, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Pfizer board member and former Trump FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla as defendants.
Berenson said it will become clear that government officials and top Pfizer executives worked together to censor his skepticism.
“I don't think anyone can look at it and not see that,” he said.
Berenson believes Musk's strong belief in free speech made X the “most important place to get news” in the United States and influenced Zuckerberg to tell the truth.
“Should American voters trust Facebook? I think it can be trusted more today than it was yesterday,” Berenson said.
“I think Elon has pushed Zuckerberg to define himself better on this issue, and arguably that's almost as important as anything Elon has done at X, because Facebook is a bigger platform,” he added. “The fact that Zuckerberg says, 'We care about free speech and we don't like this kind of pressure,' I think that's a very important step and I think Musk deserves some credit for that.”
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In Monday's letter, Zuckerberg also wrote about limiting the Hunter Biden laptop story. He wrote that the FBI warned his company about “a potential Russian disinformation operation” regarding the Biden family and Burisma, ahead of the 2020 election.
Zuckerberg said the infamous New York Post story that ran days before the 2020 election reported on corruption allegations involving Biden's family, so they had fact-checkers review the story and temporarily demoted it while they awaited a response.
“It has since become clear that the report was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have downplayed the story,” Zuckerberg wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Berenson's lawsuit.
Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment.
Berenson also believes there is a clear “double standard” because the mainstream media “would turn on Trump and say he doesn't care about the Constitution and the First Amendment” if he were in Biden's position.
“Because it's the Biden administration, they get a pass,” Berenson said.
“The Biden administration is exempt from censorship,” he continued. “And part of that is because the media was pushing vaccine censorship and they wanted Biden to win in 2020 and they ran with this completely ridiculous story that this laptop had somehow been planted in a repair shop in Delaware by Russian agents. It never made any sense.”
A White House spokesperson previously told Fox News: “When faced with a deadly pandemic, this administration has encouraged responsible action to protect public health and safety. Our position has been clear and consistent: We believe tech companies and other private actors must consider the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent decisions about the information they present.”
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Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
