A Meta spokesman admitted error in censorship of a Facebook video of a federal official suggesting the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump was a major mistake.
Meta Communications Director Andy Stone, in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America on Friday, responded to the scandal, stating, “This happened in error and has since been corrected.” 
The controversy began when reports surfaced that Meta-owned Facebook had censored video of a Department of Justice (DOJ) public affairs chief calling a court case against Trump “nonsense.”
MRC Free Speech America quickly reached out to the tech giant, prompting Stone’s censorship admission, which seemed particularly hypocritical given Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s censorship confession to the House Judiciary Committee promising to pull back on election-related censorship just…
