Posted on 08/26/2022 8:36:08 AM PDT by grundle
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden's son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son's business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong "sucks".
"When we take down something that we're not supposed to, that's the worst," Zuckerberg said in a rare extended media interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.
The New York Post story was released just weeks before the presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which Mr Biden won.
It claimed that a laptop, abandoned in a repair shop by Hunter Biden, contained emails which included details of Hunter introducing a Ukrainian energy tycoon to his father and arranging a meeting. There is no record on Mr Biden's schedule that such a meeting ever took place.
Critically, it fed into long-running unproven allegations about corruption on Joe Biden's part to ensure his son's business success in Ukraine.
In that context, the New York Post story, based on exclusive data no other news agency had access to, was met with scepticism - and censored by social media outlets.
Zuckerberg told Rogan: "The background here is that the FBI came to us - some folks on our team - and was like 'hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought 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'."
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I can't imagine why anyone with half a brain would use Facebook as a social media outlet.
This is the cover story
Who am I to trust?
These cretins or my own eyes and ears?
Article also pretends that the NYP is STILL the only ones reporting it, and that we don’t ACTUALLY HAVE ACCESS TO THE CONTENTS!
Oh my! You just wait until the GOP gets the House. They are going to ask some “hard questions”!
So the alphabet agencies control Facebook, who’d-a-thunk-it.
FBI illegally influencing the outcome of elections by knowingly providing false statements, misinformation, censorship.
They act like the only thing in the laptop was financial dealings.
It also contained photos and video of Hunter doing drugs and in sexual situations with underage girls.
You could not even download the images to your computer because you would be guilty of child porn. Heavily redacted versions exist on the dark web, along with many other hideous videos of child abuse by HilLIARy, Podesta, Huma, and others.
Don’t search for them if you don’t want them to haunt your nighmares. Pizzagate was real.
Zuckerberg is passing the buck he’s been hurt by all his censorship and election interference.
Zuck’s (alleged) ignorance and naivete doesn’t absolve him for creating organizations that went into local elections offices and completely took over the entire election process.
Nobody believes this guy is an aw-shucks babe in the woods.
Would *uckerberg have buried the laptop even with the FBI, CIA and IRS telling him to bury it if the pervy perp had been Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr. instead of Hunter Biden? Not a chance. It would have been headlined by Fakebook.
This is just *uckerberg and the FBI each trying to blame the other for election interference in an exercise of implausible deniability.
Who told The NY Times and WAPO, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC to kill the laptop story?
No one’s ever explained, per the intelligence hacks’ letter, what the “earmarks” were that suggested this was Russian disinformation. That even the most sophisticated intelligence agencies in the world could, or would, forge a full harddrive, including countless damaging deep fake photos and videos and countless megabytes of one’s usual routine and non controversial emails and photos, is a bit of a large pill to swallow. Yet, zuckhead and the media just sucked it up. Or so they say
Does this whizbang realize that he just admitted to committing a felony and implicated the FBI in that felony?
The Ukrainians get billions and weapons like we will never see, as a result. Still supporting Ukraine? Zel will allow as many Ukrainians to suffer as needed for cash and weapons. Soros is running this one, courtesy of obamas deep state installment of zel.
Ha, ha, ha. Good one!
Fingerpointing all around.
Zuckerberg issued the order. I don’t much care why.
This admission by Zuck was done to distract and get the student loan giveaway out of the news. Student loan giveaway has enraged a lot of folks on both sides.
. . . illegally influencing . . .
You can pull up the Tucker Carlson show on you tube from last night as a lawyer confirmed this.
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