Exhibit 1137 ยท Congressional testimony (written)
Testimony of Neil Potts, Vice President, Public Policy, Meta Platforms Inc., before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ("Shut Your App ... Part II")
Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including changes we made to our COVID-19-related enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
Meta's statement to the Senate committee that, as its chief executive acknowledged, in 2021 senior Biden administration officials repeatedly pressured its teams to censor COVID-19 content, that the decision to remove content was Meta's, and that Meta's content-moderation changes of 2025 (ending U.S. third-party fact-checking, fewer demotions, higher confidence thresholds) were meant to allow more speech. Google's witness (Markham Erickson) testified at the same hearing; his testimony was not retrieved.
- Source
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (written testimony)
- Date
- 29 October 2025
- Quoted from
- Testimony, PDF p. 2 (paragraph beginning 'As our CEO has acknowledged')
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/0D8A8F4B-BB3C-4656-B1ED-A744ADB6D3C8
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit