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MARK ZUCKERBERG. consciously or unconsciously, revealed on Joe Rogan’s podcast what much of America already knew: the FBI became a political extension of the Democratic Party.
It astonishes Zuckerberg’s tone, countenance and body language when he admits to Rogan that the FBI suggested to Facebook to censor Russian “propaganda” on the platform, just days before the New York Post‘s report on Hunter Biden’s controversial business dealings with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and his relationship for then-candidate Joe Biden came to light.
“The background here is that the FBI came to us – some folks on our team – and was like ‘hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought 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 that’s similar to that'”, said an unflinching Zuckerberg, who admitted being wrong about algorithmically limiting the Post’s story and incredibly called the FBI a “legitimate” law enforcement institution.
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden laptop story for 7 days based on a general request from the FBI to restrict election misinformation. pic.twitter.com/llTA7IqGa1
— Minds💡 (@minds) August 25, 2022
Although Zuckerberg says the FBI didn’t promptly ask to limit the New York Post story, the agency’s request prompted the censorship because it was obvious: any negative and controversial story surrounding then-candidate Biden, weeks away from running against Trump in the general election, must surely be Russian disinformation.
But how come did Facebook “think” the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation? Did they just read the tabloid’s headline and say, “Ah, this is surely Putin’s doing”? Of course not. It wasn’t just Facebook, it was the media, it was Twitter, Google and every opinion leader who literally colluded against Trump to defeat him at the polls no matter what. The end justifies the means.
It turns out that one agency had Hunter Biden’s laptop in its possession since 2019 —the FBI. Now, it just so happens that that laptop was kept out of the public eye for a whole year and just as a conservative media outlet prepares to release the most important exclusive in the weeks leading up to the election, the same FBI “warns” Facebook that tons of Russian disinformation are coming that seeks to polarize the country as it did in 2016. One doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand what’s behind this.
Hunter Biden, son of President Biden. (EFE)
The story of the New York Post censorship is one of the most serious attacks on the American press in the history of the United States. Both in context and scope. However, there is more evidence of the FBI acting as an arm of the Democratic Party.
Just last month, both CNN and Fox News independently revealed that the federal investigation against Hunter Biden was reaching its peak, with officials in charge weighing charges of alleged tax violations, foreign lobbying and false statements. However, within the DOJ, there was internal squabbling, as the agency reportedly considers Hunter’s case to be politically sensitive and therefore could have an impact on the midterms.
As a result, investigators considering pressing charges are seeing firsthand how the DOJ is limiting them.
But the double standard is clear: if the DOJ and FBI were so concerned about not influencing the November election, how is it that a couple of weeks after the CNN and Fox News reports came out, they were raiding Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence?
That raid was done months before the midterms and in the midst of the various important primaries that have been taking place across the country.
So far there is no clear and concrete explanation as to why Trump’s residence was raided, an unprecedented event in the history of the US. It is supposed to be for an alleged violation of the Presidential Records Act, however, the search warrant itself is very broad, and the FBI agents took passports and even reportedly demanded documents protected by client-attorney privilege.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden indeed shows more evidence of criminal activities: there are videos related to drugs, prostitution, emails linking him to shady business deals and text messages linking him to alleged misdemeanors.
The big difference between Donald Trump and Hunter Biden, is that one is protected by the media and agencies allied to the Democratic Party, and the other has been the pebble in the shoe for the latter.
So when “disinformation,” such as the nefarious Russian plot, is pushed by the media and even security agencies, hitting figures like Trump, the major social media regulators turn a blind eye. But when genuine, verifiable information goes against a prominent Democrat, Big Tech and government collude to censor.
Emmanuel Alejandro Rondón is a journalist at El American specializing in the areas of American politics and media analysis // Emmanuel Alejandro Rondón es periodista de El American especializado en las áreas de política americana y análisis de medios de comunicación.
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