Facebook’s response to Hunter Biden laptop story shows FBI uses ‘disinformation’ as a weapon

Now we know why social media sites are rushing to quash The Post’s series of bombshells about Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI primed them to expect “Russian disinformation” on that exact topic. and Facebook executives were hoping to win brownie points with the incoming Harris-Biden administration.

Here are Facebook employee chat logs released in an interim report from the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Weaponization: Shows that the FBI laid the foundation for censorship By warning social media sites that Russian agents were preparing “fake news” about Hunter Biden and Ukraine.

So when The Post began reporting on the laptop, one Facebook employee dismissed it, saying it was “exactly what you would expect from a hack and leak.”

This is almost a year ~ after Another division of the FBI internally verified that Hunter’s laptop was authentic; information agency by chance I think it was shared with some Twitter employees but not given to Facebook.

Most other major media outlets are also taking the “misinformation” route. actual misinformation about the fake “Russiagate” scandal), Facebook and Twitter actively suppressed our reporting.

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META CEO Mark Zuckerberg (later) He acknowledged that suppressing the story was wrong.And on Twitter Jack Dorsey also expressed it this way: I regret it.

But the chat also showed that Facebook’s higher-ups were determined to do the Harris-Biden favor, with one top executive, Nick Clegg (a former member of the British left-wing party), telling another: “This could impact how the incoming Biden administration views us more than anything else.”

This is a huge shame for a media company that claims to care about its users.

But the FBI sowed doubt about its story. knew The fact that it was true is evidence that the ‘False Information Prevention Industrial Complex’ is actively operating. duster False information.

Those with blatant political bias, as evidenced by the federally subsidized Global Disinformation Index. “Blacklist” of conservative publications to the FBI Encourages social media sites to target right-wing accounts for suspension or removal..

And class politicization extends to the U.S. intelligence community as well. Witness 51 “Lying Spies” (At the request of the Biden campaign!) by signing a letter blasting the laptop story as an apparent “Russian intelligence operation” — and He then refused to apologize. When they turned out to be completely wrong.

The more our noble “best and brightest” claim to protect us from “bad” information, the more informed they turn out to be. own interest in mind.