In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg claimed Biden officials phoned executives at Meta to “scream” and “curse” at them, ordering them to remove negative posts on Facebook about the coronavirus vaccine, Report informs via Hindustan Times.

“It was brutal,” Zuckerberg said during his interview on the ‘Joe Rogan Experience’. “The US government should be defending its companies, not be at the tip of the spear attacking its companies.”

Zuckerberg also said Biden aides demanded that Meta remove posts that correctly stated that vaccines could have side effects. “Basically it just got to this point [where we told them], ‘No, we’re not going to take down this thing that was true,’” Zuckerberg said.