Mark Zuckerberg, top boss of Meta – the conglomerate that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, during an appearance on the popular Joe Rogan podcast has revealed shocking information on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has forced the company in enforcing strict censor on any content that was talking about Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, his scandalous laptop and massive corruption of Biden family.
During the interview, Joe Rogan asked “How do you handle a big news item that is controversial? Like there was a lot of attention on Twitter when the Hunter Biden story came out during the elections”.
Replying to this question, Zuckerberg said: “We took a path different path than Twitter. During elections, the FBI basically came to us. As a team, they said we need to be on high alert because of a lot of Russian propaganda during the 2016 elections. (They told the Facebook team) that there is going to be a similar kind of dump (of political controversy), so just be vigilant.
“Our approach is different from Twitter. Twitter tells directly that you just can’t share that particular thing. Facebook works with third-party fact-checkers. There was a 5-7-day period when that particular story was being flagged as potential misinformation. So, its distribution on Facebook was limited. We were not ‘black and white’ like Twitter. But we limited the reach of the story so that a fewer number of people were able to see it or share it”.
Mark Zuckerberg further said that if the FBI tells them to be careful about something they take it seriously. And that (hunter Biden laptop) story was flagged by them (FBI), so Facebook did what was necessary. He even lamented that despite limiting the reach of the story, Facebook was still criticized by many for not limiting it enough.
When Joe Rogan asked if the FBI specifically asked them to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, Zuckerberg admitted that they did not mention it specifically, but Facebook did it anyway.
Zuckerberg’s admission that social media giant Facebook actively tweaked its algorithm to favor one particular candidate [Joe Biden] in the 2020 US elections and prevented him from facing negative public opinion at a crucial juncture in the election process has triggered some major reactions on social media.
While some people highlighted how Facebook actively tweeted its algorithm to favor of one candidate in the US elections (Joe Biden), others pointed out the concern that Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter are now deciding which stories would be consumed by the masses and how they will promote or suppress them based on Big Tech’s own definition of their legitimacy and usefulness.
It may be mentioned here that, during the last weeks of the 2020 presidential election in the US, the New York Post had published a bombshell story exposing Hunter Biden’s emails, including his drug addiction and addiction to prostitutes, as well his financial link with Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
While Twitter began suppressing this New York Post report news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and others began frantic propaganda branding the NY Post report as “fake”. Only the truth about the New York Post report was allowed to get broader readership when Biden was already sure to become the president. At this stage, Jack Dorsey, the former head of Twitter expressed “regret” over censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story and blocking the New York Post from their Twitter account.
The media favoring of Joe Biden was not limited to suppressing the NY Post story and declaring it as fake. The pool of journalists who followed Biden around during his campaign never asked him about it. When one journalist, CBS News’ Bo Ericson had managed to ask, he was pushed back angrily by his own colleagues and other journalists.
What does that mean? It was FBI and other intelligence agencies as well as those mighty media cartel in the US were playing desperately in somehow getting Donald Trump defeated.
