Republicans React to Mark Zuckerberg’s Revelation on Hunter Biden Laptop Story

House Republicans want Facebook and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in front of Congress to provide more details after he admitted Facebook intentionally throttled stories in 2020 about a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Zuckerberg on Thursday gave an interview to podcaster Joe Rogan that the FBI told his company to be aware of alleged Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election.

“How do you handle things when there’s a big news item that’s controversial?” Rogan asked Zuckerberg, noting that “there was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

Zuckerberg responded: “The background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to some folks on our team [and] were like, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought that 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 similar to that, so just be vigilant.’”

With just weeks before the 2020 election, the New York Post published reports about the overseas business dealings of Hunter and Joe Biden. Later, a former business associate of the Bidens, Tony Bobulinski, came forward and confirmed details in some of the emails sourced from the younger Biden’s laptop.

Zuckerberg attempted to explain his company’s rationale, saying that the firm’s policies differ from those of Twitter, which, after the NY Post story was published, blocked the sharing of the article and locked the NY Post out of its account for about two weeks.

“What Twitter did [was] they said, ‘You can’t share this at all.’ We didn’t do that,” Zuckerberg told Rogan.

But Republicans now want Zuckerberg to testify and provide more details.

“This isn’t just insane, it’s