Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released Thursday that Facebook suppressed the New York Post’s report about Hunter Biden’s laptop after the FBI warned the tech giant about misinformation.
Asked by podcast host Joe Rogan about Facebook’s approach to the Hunter Biden report, published in October 2020, Zuckerberg said, “The background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us … and was like, Hey, just so you know, like you should be on high alert. … We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump … that’s similar to that.”
The Meta CEO contrasted Facebook’s approach with Twitter, which completely banned sharing the Post article.
“The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it,” Zuckerberg said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. noting that the social media giant was waiting on fact checkers to give a verdict on the report “So you could still share it. You could still consume it “
Asked by Rogan how significantly the distribution was affected, Zuckerberg did not give an exact figure, but said the impact was “meaningful.”
In the years since the Post’s Hunter Biden articles, other news outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, have reported that emails from the laptop appear authentic.
“So the FBI preemptively warned Facebook off Hunter Biden laptop reporting,” tweeted Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., adding: “This same agency effectively laundered Russian [disinformation] in the 2016 election in the form of Steele dossier. And later lied to a court to get wiretaps.”
Other Republican lawmakers also reacted on Twitter:
And of course they will get away with it just like they do everything eles this is ridiculous how much the Biden and his administration have gotten away with if we were to do it or Trump we would pay full price of the law. Tired of this soap opera.
WHAT?! Fecesbook and FBI collaborated to surpress politically hot information? Hmmm. What did the FEEBS tell the media and WaPo and NYT? CNN? MSNBC? oh.. yeah.. “move along…nothing to see here…”
Have lost all respect for FBI who once was something I always looked up too. How can they ever get back what these at the top have lost. Is this even American anymore? My father would turn over in his grave.
FBI FOR BIDENS INTERESTS AND MARK SUCKBUTTBERG WELCOME TO THE FOURTH REICH
THE FBI AND DOJ ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW. I no longer believe the Attorney General of the United States and the FBI Director should be appointed by the POTUS. Those positions should be appointed by the majority of the attorney generals of the states, who are voted into their office by the people. That’s pure Democracy. How many incidents have to occur before this obvious change to the Constitution is adopted along with a balanced budget and Congressional term limits amendments? It’s never been necessary before today since no political party has been willing to so flagrantly violate the Constitution to force their views on the country. Everyone involved in the controversies of the past few years under the umbrella of the DOJ should be charged and convicted. If it were up to me, I’d hang them all. Since that is unlikely, we should insist that they spend hard and a long time in prison. To me, what they’ve done is treasonous.
All of the bidens are corrupt and sneaky,prison for all.And then start looking at the herd that supports them.
President Trump has Hillary Clinton, along with many others, currently under a RICO investigation.
And, the the Zuckerbergbot wants to avoid being ensnared up in all of that as much as possible now that he got busted for being involved with influencing the 2020 election.
Both Facebook and Twitter just recently announced that they are currently working on influencing the 2022 Mid-term Election as well.
It would appear that the only viable reason for making it appear as if the Zuckerbergbot is in the hotseat now so that when the Republicans take things over, they won’t be able to double jeopardy him and it’ll all be back to business as usual for the usual suspects. They’re going to clear him of everything because this country is no longer being run from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Any questions on why the Kenyan purchased that house in D.C. before he left the White House?
Do you really believe Zuckerbuck? He is part of the big problem
Obviously the Federal government is presently corrupt. This does not mean everyone is corrupt but the present leaders are.
This had real impact to the Election! There is more than one way to commit Election fraud.
The real outrage is that a governmental agency committed the exact crime they are suppose to protect our nation from ever happening!
$419 million Zuck suck bucks for election fraud, too. This criminal committed treason and sedition. It’s easy it name all those that have. A gallows would be too humane. We need open season.
Who really runs and control our country? It is a few social media wealth who tell the Washington how and what to vote. We must break up these few as they are destroying our country
So, why is Zuckerberg coming out with this info now?? Is it because he knows he will be called in front of Congress again, and maybe this time with repercussions? I think he’s coming out ahead of the “grilling” so that he can point the problem/s in a different direction, away from him.