Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Thursday that the FBI warned Facebook about "Russian propaganda" shortly before the Hunter Biden laptop story broke at the NY Post.
"Basically,
the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us- some
folks on our team and was like, 'Hey, just so you know, like, 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 of that's similar to that. So just
be vigilant," Zuckerberg told Rogan.
Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that the FBI reached out to Facebook to put them on notice that the Hunter Biden’s laptop story was similar to the previous Russian Propaganda and to be on high alert #joerogan #MarkZuckerberg #JRE pic.twitter.com/ojZHhK3isa
— Giuseppe Mercadante (@itsmercadante) August 25, 2022
LOL. It's actually the FBI spreading the "election misinformation."
— thebradfordfile (@thebradfordfile) August 26, 2022
As a reminder, Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop at a Wilmington, Delaware repair shop on April 12, 2019. The owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, walked into the Albuquerque FBI office, where he explained what he had, but was rebuffed by the FBI. He was told basically, get lost. This was mid-September 2019.
Two months passed and then, out of the blue, the FBI contacted John Paul Mac Issac. Two FBI agents from the Wilmington FBI office–Joshua Williams and Mike Dzielak–came to John Paul’s business. He offered immediately to give them the hard drive, no strings attached. Agents Williams and Dzielak declined to take the device.
Eight months later, Isaac provided a copy to then-President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who provided a copy of the hard drive to The Post.
Back to Rogan - Zuckerberg expressed regret about suppressing a story that turned out to be the truth.
"Yeah,
yeah. I mean, it sucks," he said, before defending the platform for
letting others share the NY Post story, unlike Twitter.
tfw the secret police visit facebook hq to sway the presidential election
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) August 25, 2022
"It's
probably also the case of armchair quarterbacking, right?" replied
Rogan, adding "Or at least Monday morning quarterbacking… because in the
moment, you had reason to believe based on the FBI talking to you that
it wasn't real and that there was going to be some propaganda. So what
do you do?" Rogan said. "And then, if you just let it get out there and
what if it changes the election and it turns out to be bulls---, that's a
real problem. And I would imagine that those kinds of decisions are the
most difficult." (h/t Fox News).
Wait till you hear what the whistleblowers have to say about this.
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) August 25, 2022
It’s gonna make J6 look like a game of hopscotch. https://t.co/xiCjR5U28T
reminder: big tech effectively acts as a DNC PR operation. pic.twitter.com/LhYGNKy3q5
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) August 25, 2022
The FBI lied on FISA warrants to spy on Donald Trump in 2016, they fabricated the Russia hoax, they worked with Facebook (and probably Twitter) to censor a damaging true story about his opponent in 2020 while they had the laptop the whole time, and they raided his home in 2022.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 25, 2022
In a letter from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to Inspector General Michael Horowitz this week, Johnson revealed that an FBI whistleblower claims that agency leadership gave orders not to investigate the laptop.
"Allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation," wrote Sen. Grassley in a separate letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Talk about running cover...
(Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com)
