The FBI has finally decided to speak up about the claims from Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story in the wake of a warning about “Russian propaganda” being handed down by the bureau just prior to the 2020 presidential elections.
Zuckerberg, who is the founder of Facebook which has now become known as Meta, stated to podcasting titan Joe Rogan this past week that Facebook restricted the sharing of the story due to the FBI issuing the company a warning just before it broke that a Russian disinformation campaign was about to sweep through. The revelation, along with the whistleblower allegations the bureau banned its agents from looking into, brings up quite a few questions about the role of the FBI in the election.
“The FBI routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats,” stated the Bureau in a release sent out on Friday evening, going on to add that it “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”
The same FBI who lied about Russian “collusion” and raided President Trump’s home asked Facebook to manipulate its feed to bury the Hunter Biden story.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 26, 2022
While both Twitter, which also took steps to silence a massive post from the New York Post just before the election, and Facebook are private companies that are not technically beholden to the First Amendment, any actions taken due to pressure from a government entity could end up becoming a constitutional issue.
Various videos, emails, photos, and text messages that were discovered inside the abandoned laptop, which were widely also ignored by members of the legacy media outlets, highlight the president’s son as a drug-addled, venal degenerate and spark a string of troubling questions concerning Old Uncle Joe’s own place in the corrupt dealings that his son took part in. A recent poll carried out by TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics highlighted that roughly 19% of Americans think that former President Trump would most likely have won his re-election if the voters had been informed about the information found within the laptop of HUnter Biden and that said information was real.
Quite a while after the election was finalized, the main media outlets, such as CNN and the Washington Post, which had chosen to outright dismiss anything to do with the laptop as just Russian meddling, finally stated that the information was, in fact, authentic.
Zuckerberg stated to the podcaster that he could not recall if the FBI made any allusions to the laptop specifically, but once the FBI had put out its statement, Meta posted another response that stated that the warning had been quite general in nature.
“The FBI shared general warnings about foreign interference — nothing specific about Hunter Biden,” read the statement.
Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, stated to legislators that he could make no statements on what, if anything at all, the bureau was doing in relation to the laptop.
