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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent an email to employees on Thursday acknowledging that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.

Mr Zuckerberg is the latest high-profile individual to formally recognise Mr Biden’s victory over Donald Trump and comes amid criticism of Facebook’s role in spreading misinformation.

“I believe the outcome of the election is now clear and Joe Biden is going to be our next president,” Mr Zuckerberg said at a companywide meeting, according to BuzzFeed News.

He emphasized that it was important that Americans believe in the electoral process.

“It’s important that people have confidence that the election was fundamentally fair, and that goes for the tens of millions of people that voted for Trump,” Mr Zuckerberg wrote.

Prior to the announcement, Facebook faced criticism from members of the Biden campaign over what they view as the social media platform’s lackluster job of curbing disinformation and misinformation and for its policy on political ads.

Megan Clasen, a Biden campaign media adviser, wrote a tweet comparing the statements of numerous media outlets who proclaimed Mr Biden the winner of the election against a vague memo sent out by Facebook prior to Mr Zuckerberg’s email.

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The vague statement included the line “While multiple sources have projected a presidential winner…” without actually naming who the winner was.

Despite the criticism, Facebook appears to be facing far less scrutiny this year than it did following the 2016 election when allegations from Democrats that there had been foreign interference in the election was rampant.

CNBC reported that the feeling inside the company was one of relief now that the 2020 election has passed and there are no explosive accusations being made against the company.

The email also addressed former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

According to Mr Zuckerberg, Mr Bannon — who recently called for FBI Director Chris Wray and the White House’s leading infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci’s heads to be put on spikes outside the White House — has not violated enough of the social media platform’s rules to warrant an account suspension.

The company did remove a number of pages connected to Bannon, but they were removed for artificially inflating their reach.

Joe Biden may give ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt a top administration role but Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg could face a more hostile reception from the president-elect.

Mr Schmidt, who ran the search giant from 2001 to 2011, is being considered to lead a new technology industry task force in the White House, says a report.

But Mr Zuckerberg may have some work to do after Facebook’s decision to not fact-check political ads during the campaign “irritated” Mr Biden, according to the Financial Times.

And just hours after Mr Biden made his victory speech, a leading campaign aide took shots at Mr Zuckerberg on social media.

Bill Russo retweeted a Sacha Baron Cohen post which showed Mr Zuckerberg meeting with Donald Trump with the comment “One down, one to go.”

“We pleaded with Facebook for over a year to be serious about these problems. They have not. Our democracy is on the line. We need answers,” tweeted Mr Russo.

He also accused the company of “shredding the fabric of our democracy.”

Mr Biden’s transition team will also include Facebook’s former associate general counsel Jessica Hertz, and Apple’s ex vice president for government affairs Cynthia Hogan, says the Financial Times.

Mr Biden’s team was repeatedly critical of Facebook throughout the campaign and they called for the company to more aggressively deal with conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Mr Biden’s campaign chief Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote a letter to Mr Zuckerberg in which she called Facebook the ‘foremost propagator’ of voter disinformation.

Before his election Mr Biden indicated that he would not be soft on Facebook and supported revoking Section 230, which protects US websites for being held liable for content uploaded by users.

“I’ve never been a fan of Facebook, as you probably know,” Mr Biden told the New York Times last December.

“I’ve never been a big Zuckerberg fan. I think he’s a real problem.

“The idea that it’s a tech company is that Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms.”

Few tech observers expect Mr Biden to return to the “golden era” of the Barack Obama administration.

“Do we think this is going to be Barack Obama 2.0? No, not at all,” a tech executive told the Financial Times.