Mark Zuckerberg Says FBI Suggested Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Russian Disinformation
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During an appearance on Joe Rogan Experience podcast published Thursday, discussed the Big Tech suppression of the New York Post's reporting in 2020, that shed light on the shady foreign business dealings of the son of then-candidate Joe Biden. Polls show that about 15% of voters would have voted differently if they had been aware of the laptop story.
Zuckerberg stressed that Facebook took a "different path" than Twitter, which completely censored the Post's reporting while Facebook limited its reach on the platform.
"Basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us- some folks on our team and was like, 'Hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert…" the Meta CEO told host Joe Rogan. "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 of that's similar to that. So just be vigilant.'"
Zuckerberg insisted that Facebook users were "still allowed to share" the Post's reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop even as their "third-party fact-checking program" was looking into whether it was misinformation, but acknowledged that the "ranking in [the] news feed was a little bit less" and that "fewer people saw it than would've otherwise."
"By what percentage?" Rogan asked.
"I don't know off the top of my head, but it's- it's meaningful," Zuckerberg responded. "But we weren't sort of as black and white about it as Twitter. We just kind of thought hey look, if the FBI, which I still view is a legitimate institution in this country, it's a very professional law enforcement- they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something then I want to take that seriously."
"Did they specifically say you need to be on guard about that story?" Rogan followed.
"No, I don't remember if it was that specifically, but it basically fit the pattern," Zuckerberg said.
When asked if there was any "regret" about suppressing a story that turned out be factual, Zuckerberg replied, "Yeah, yeah. I mean, it sucks."
Trump supporters and other critics argue that Zuckerberg's comments confirm what they say was a collusion by left-wing bureaucrats, globalists and Big Tech against Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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