Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said that Facebook killed the laptop story after the FBI “warned” of a “possible Russian disinfo plan.” He also said that Facebook “shouldn’t have downgraded the story.”
In a message to Rep. Jim Jordan (Republican-OH), Zuckerberg said that Facebook removed a New York Post story after the FBI told them about a possible “Russian misinformation operation” involving President Biden’s family.
Regarding the article about the Biden family’s “corruption claims,” Facebook “sent that news article to fact-checkers” and “temporarily downgraded it.”
Today, it became clear that the news wasn’t Russian propaganda, and Zuckerberg said, “In hindsight, we shouldn’t have lowered the story. We’ve changed our rules and procedures to make sure this doesn’t happen again. For example, we don’t now put things on hold in the U.S. until fact-checkers can look them over.”
Before Zuckerberg’s admission, Emma-Jo Morris, the political editor of Breitbart News, told a committee of the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the U.S. Federal Government that the FBI knew about the Hunter Biden laptop before December of 2019, long before she wrote a story about it in 2020.
The CEO of Meta said that the FBI had “warned” about a potential “Russian disinfo operation about the Biden family.” The company “demoted” the story after reading about “corruption claims” against the Biden family in the New York Post.
“The FBI told us that there might be a Russian plot to spread false information about the Biden family and Burisma before the 2020 election,” Zuckerberg said. “That fall, when we saw a story in the New York Post about corruption claims against Joe Biden’s family, who was the Democratic choice for president at the time, we sent the story to fact-checkers to be looked over and briefly demoted it while we waited for a response.”
Breitbart News said before, “Even though the FBI knew about the laptop and talked to Twitter and Facebook officials a lot before the 2020 election, when Morris first spoke about the laptop story, both Twitter and Facebook blocked the story and people in the US who shared it because they thought it might be Russian propaganda.”
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