PM Orbán’s EU group would review “Facebook censorship”

Patriots for Europe MEPs are initiating the setting up of a vetting committee in the European Parliament on “the issue of Facebook censorship”, a ruling Fidesz MEP said on Friday.

Csaba Dömötör said on Facebook that a few days ago, Facebook and Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg had stated with surprising honesty that “Facebook fact-checkers had been censoring certain contents under political pressure”. Dömötör added that among those that Zuckerberg cited as exercising pressure were the outgoing Democrats administration.

“What many have suspected and many have experienced has been proven to be a fact, but the story will not end at this point, and it must not end” he said.

It is necessary to identify exactly what content has been censored, who ordered it, and whether it represented an intervention in European countries’ domestic affairs, he added.

“Many people in the European Parliament often cite the freedom of speech and basic values of constitutionality. It will now show how much they take them seriously,” Dömötör said.

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