Facebook is an ethical cesspool.

Smug CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted it in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the Biden administration lobbied the platform to censor COVID-19 content and more.

“Senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021, the letter to the House Judiciary Committee chair states.

The content the Biden administration requested that Meta trim included “humor and satire,” according to the Facebook founder, and he said he regrets complying with the demands, the New York Post and the Associated Press report.

“Satire,” Jonathan Swift wrote, “is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”

It’s no surprise that Zuckerberg and Biden officials don’t see the irony here. Facts tend to rise to the surface, hopefully, and that day is today. Facebook is not a “media” outlet. It was a mistake to label Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and all the rest “social media.” It’s social, no doubt, but media? They are digital platforms for social networking.

The only “media” shared are stories from legitimate news outlets where being strong-armed by anyone has consequences. Your confidence is our currency; we take that seriously in every word we report.

Facebook has always been infuriating. The platform pretends to be a legitimate outlet for news, but it’s anything but. Sure, it’s a great vehicle for keeping up with friends and browsing for video clips and poignant quotes. But it can also be an endless stream of scantily clad influencers and would-be performers that numb the mind.

But today, the headline is Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that Meta can be manipulated. That cannot go unchallenged.

“I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg wrote in the letter dated Aug. 26 and posted on the Judiciary Committee’s Facebook page and to its account on X.

Baloney!

Facebook caved to politicians and this is exactly what’s wrong with our society today. Journalism is hard work. People are not always happy about what we dig up, but we stand by it and fight off politicians who want us to toe the party line. Facebook can be their puppet — we refuse to be cowed into submission.

It’s sickening to listen to Zuckerberg’s mea culpa. He knows exactly what he’s doing: making money. The rest is just collateral damage.

“I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today,” he adds. “We’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.” This is a clear reference to the Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story that was true all along.

Again, he doesn’t understand. Standing by your story means you did the hard work. Zuckerberg is not and never will be a journalist. Period.

He allowed his platform to be influenced by outside pressure because his business model is to aggregate content and be responsible for none of it. He treats posts about fancy dinners in the same way as murder cases. The facts are up to those who post. It’s impossible to keep up with the fact-checking.

So he writes letters and promises to do better while real journalists work even harder to dig for the truth.