Joe Rogan, the host of the largest podcast in the US, hosted an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook/Meta, on Thursday.
During the interview, Zuckerberg admitted that the big tech company took down Hunter Biden’s laptop story — news that touched national security and directly impacted the 2020 election — because the FBI ordered it to. “How do you handle things when it’s big news that’s controversial?” asked Rogan.
“Just like the New York Post drew a lot of attention on Twitter during the election for Hunter Biden’s laptop story.” “Yes,” he replied. “So you censored that too?” Rogan asked. “So we took a different route than Twitter,” Zuckerberg said.
“I mean, basically the background here is the FBI, I think basically some, some people on our team came up to us and said, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. … We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 elections. We have a forewarning that there will basically be a kind of dumping ground of something similar. Stay tuned.’”
“So our protocol is different than Twitter’s,” he continued. “What Twitter did was say, ‘You can’t share this at all’. Third parties because we don’t want to decide what’s true and what’s false. And I think it was five or seven days when it was basically was whether it was
wrong,
Facebook distribution was reduced, but people were still allowed to share. So you could still share it. You could still consume it. “Can we say that the distribution has decreased… how does that work?” asked Rogan.
“Basically, the ranking in the newsfeed was a bit lower, so fewer people saw it than would otherwise have seen it,” Zuck replied. “What percentage?” Zuck replied, “But it’s significant. But I mean, basically, a lot of people could still share it.
We have received many complaints about this. Obviously, this is a hyper-political problem. Depending on which side of the political spectrum you think you’re on, we either don’t censor you enough or we censor you. to.
But we weren’t as black and white as Twitter, we were just like, ‘Look, if the FBI, which I still see as a legitimate institution in this country, is like very professional law enforcement — they come to us and tell us, we need
to monitor something.
“Then I want to take it seriously. “Did you specifically say that you should be wary of this story?” asked Rogan.
“No, I don’t remember if it was that specifically,” Zuckerberg said. “But… it basically fitted the pattern. But Facebook wasn’t done doing the Democratic Party a favor during the 2016 election by the Thomas More Society in a 2020 report. Name of a Specific Candidate and Party,” the report said.
“By funding hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other high-tech enthusiasts, activist organizations have created a two-tier voting system that treats voters differently based on whether they live in Democratic or Republican strongholds.
In May 2021, Project Veritas released alleged internal documents showing that Facebook ran an elaborate campaign to censor any criticism of COVID-19 vaccines. “The company has set up a tier system to rank comments on different scales depending on how much they question the statement or warn against vaccination against Covid-19,” the group commented.
“Level 2, for example, represents an ‘indirect deterrent’ to vaccination, and according to PV’s sources, user comments like this would be heavily ‘suppressed,'” the report continues. .
“It doesn’t matter if the comments are true, factual, or represent reality,” noted Project Veritas. “Comments are degraded, buried, and hidden from the public when they clash with this system. This is how Facebook and big tech companies like it have become instruments of government rather than private, independent companies.”
Whether through coercion, intimidation, or bribery Using taxpayers’ money, major tech companies have worked hand-in-hand with the US government to become the arbiters of online public information.
Joe didn’t need any help from the fbi . We all knew he cheated!