It looks like Zuckerberg just came clean on Joe Rogan’s podcast—perhaps he sees the writing on the wall…
The founder and C.E.O. of Facebook told Rogan that he and his company fully complied with a request from the F.B.I. to withhold and censor the Hunter Biden laptop story for at least 7 days.
Obviously, we all knew this was true, but it is nice to see this stunning admission from the head of Facebook…
Zuckerberg went on to criticize Twitter’s handling of the story, but I can’t help but wonder if he is just doing this to distract from what Facebook did.
My biggest question is: why now?
Why is Zuckerberg finally coming out to tell everyone this? Is he trying to distance himself from the spooks at a quickly collapsing F.B.I?
Following the Mar-A-Lago raid, Many people are now openly discussing disbanding the F.B.I—including some U.S. politicians—this is not a very sustainable position for the agency to be in, is it?
Here’s what Zuckerberg said to Rogan:
In a functioning society, this would be the lead story on every network for the foreseeable future.
But since the corporate media are nothing more than the DNC's lap-dog at this point, you'll barely hear any mention of it. https://t.co/zHcSfWAUkl
— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) August 26, 2022
#MarkZuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan in a recent interview that the company actively reduced the reach of #SocialMedia posts referencing the story about #HunterBiden’s laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. https://t.co/o7R81nq4jg
— NTD News (@NTDNews) August 26, 2022
Fox News dissected the recent conversation:
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.”
#Meta CEO #MarkZuckerberg told Joe Rogan that, after “the FBI… came to some folks on our team,” #Facebook actively reduced the reach of posts referencing the story about #HunterBidensLaptop ahead of the 2020 election. https://t.co/2SfbAEf0Do
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) August 26, 2022
Once again the FBI deliberately interferes with a national election. They need to be disbanded.
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Censored The Hunter Biden Laptop Story After The FBI Asked Them To Restrict Misinformation https://t.co/5vFvOeAXpE via @dailycaller
— R T (@RDog861) August 26, 2022
Daily Wire writes:
Zuckerberg’s disclosure indicates the bureau was apparently active on at least two fronts in shutting down a story that could have changed the course of the election.
Legacy news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN initially dismissed the story as Russian disinformation — as did Biden — but have since acknowledged the laptop’s authenticity.
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