{"id":1623897,"date":"2022-08-27T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623897"},"modified":"2022-08-27T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:03:41","slug":"meta-facebook-responds-after-founder-zuckerberg-admits-they-censored-hunter-biden-laptop-story-after-fbi-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-facebook-responds-after-founder-zuckerberg-admits-they-censored-hunter-biden-laptop-story-after-fbi-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\/Facebook Responds After Founder Zuckerberg Admits They Censored Hunter Biden Laptop Story After FBI Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeta-facebook-responds-after-founder-zuckerberg-admits-they-censored-hunter-biden-laptop-story-after-fbi-warning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Meta has responded to a viral podcast clip of Mark Zuckerberg, talking to podcaster Joe Rogan about the story of Hunter Biden&#8217;s now infamous laptop being suppressed by social media platforms.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-mark-zuckerberg-admits-facebook-suppressed-hunter-biden-story-after-fbi-warning\">interview<\/a> on the <em>Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> released Thursday, the Facebook co-founder admitted that his platform, while not going as far as Twitter, still worked to decrease the story&#8217;s reach at the request of the FBI.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;How do you guys handle things when they&#8217;re a big news item that&#8217;s controversial?&#8221; Rogan asked. &#8220;There was a lot of attention on Twitter during the election because of the Hunter Biden laptop story. So you guys censored that as well?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We took a different path than Twitter,&#8221; Zuckerberg replied, explaining that the FBI urged Facebook to be &#8220;on high alert&#8221; due to their fear of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the tech mogul, the FBI warned there would be &#8220;some kind of dump&#8221; of information that the platform should be vigilant of.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Our protocol is different from Twitter&#8217;s,&#8221; Zuckerberg continued. &#8220;What Twitter did is they said &#8216;You can&#8217;t share this at all.&#8217; We didn&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>He went on to explain that at Facebook, during the five to seven days while the Hunter Biden laptop story was being reviewed by fact-checkers, they decreased distribution.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;You could still share it, you could still consume it,&#8221; but, &#8220;the ranking in Newsfeed was a little bit less, so fewer people saw it than otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;By what percentage,&#8221; Rogan asked.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know off the top of my head, but it&#8217;s meaningful,&#8221; Zuckerberg replied.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Zuckerberg justified his company&#8217;s decision by saying that he was just following the orders of the FBI, which he still views as &#8220;a legitimate institution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Rogan questioned whether the FBI had pinpointed the Hunter Biden laptop story in particular, to which Zuckerberg replied that he could not remember, but that it &#8220;fit the pattern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Meta&#8217;s communications team responded to the clip of the interaction on Twitter, which has amassed over 8.5 million views.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;None of this is new,&#8221; Meta Newsroom wrote in response to Minds, the independent social media platform that posted the video. &#8220;Mark testified before the Senate nearly two years ago that in the lead up to the 2020 election, the FBI warned about the threat of foreign hack and leak operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Consistent with our policy, after 7 days, we lifted the demotion because it wasn\u2019t rated false by independent fact-checkers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X4C1XP1hR1\">https:\/\/t.co\/X4C1XP1hR1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meta Newsroom (@MetaNewsroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetaNewsroom\/status\/1562969024526307328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Consistent with our policy, after 7 days, we lifted the demotion because it wasn\u2019t rated false by independent fact-checkers,&#8221; they continued.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>It is true that Facebook was open about suppressing the story in 2020, with Meta policy communications director Andy Stone tweeting that they had reduced the visibility of the infamous New York Post story on Hunter Biden on the platform.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook&#8217;s third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Stone (@andymstone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andymstone\/status\/1316395902479872000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has responded to a viral podcast clip of Mark Zuckerberg, talking to podcaster Joe Rogan about the story of Hunter Biden&#8217;s now infamous laptop being suppressed by social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1623899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}