Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed that earlier than the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop computer story, Facebook algorithmically censored it for per week primarily based on a basic request from the FBI to limit election misinformation.
The social media big acquired a warning from the FBI which prompted Facebook to restrict the story’s attain on the platform forward of the 2020 presidential election, Zuckerberg stated throughout an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience.
During the podcast, Joe requested Zuckerberg how Facebook handles controversial points just like the Hunter Biden story and whether or not it was censored.
In response, Zuckerberg stated, “So we took a different path than Twitter. I mean, basically, the background here is the FBI basically came to us and talked to some folks on our team. They were like, hey, just so you know, you should be high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice. There’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that. So just be vigilant.”
The revelation was made as Zuckerberg was pressed on how tech platforms ought to deal with content material moderation on delicate topics throughout the podcast.
“We took a different path than Twitter,” Zuckerberg advised Rogan.
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“What Twitter did is they said you can’t share this at all. We didn’t do that. What we do is we have, if something is reported to us as potentially misinformation, important misinformation, we also visit a third party fact checking programme because we don’t want to decide what’s true or false,” he stated.
He additional stated that whereas Facebook decreased the distribution of the story, customers had been nonetheless allowed to share it.
HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY
In October 2020, Twitter suspended the New York Post account after the publication completely revealed the existence of Hunter’s emails.
The New York Post did an expose that exposed the existence of tens of hundreds of emails between Biden’s son Hunter and enterprise associates from Ukraine. In the expose, the publication claimed that the emails revealed how Biden’s son leveraged his political entry in his abroad enterprise dealings.
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