Facebook’s response to Hunter Biden’s laptop story shows that the FBI is using “disinformation” as a weapon

Now we know why social media sites rushed to suppress The Post’s bombshell series on Hunter Biden’s laptop: the FBI primed them to expect ‘Russian disinformation’ on that exact subject – And Facebook executives wanted to earn brownie points from the likely incoming Harris-Biden administration.

Chat logs of Facebook employees, revealed in an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Arming the Government, show that the FBI has laid the foundation for censorship by warning social media sites that Russian agents were preparing so-called “fake news” about Hunter Biden and Ukraine.

So when The Post’s coverage of the laptop went live, a Facebook employee immediately dismissed it as the “exact content expected for hack and leak.”

This was it almost a whole year after another part of the FBI had internally verified the Hunter laptop as genuine, inform the agency accidentally shared with some Twitter employees, but apparently not given to Facebook.

Because most other major media outlets are also following the “disinformation” line (rather than competing to get the story out themselves, as they did with the factual (disinformation about the fake “Russiagate” scandal), Facebook and Twitter actively suppressed our reporting.

META CEO Mark Zuckerberg later admitted that suppressing the story was the wrong moveand that of Twitter Jack Dorsey said it too sorry.

Yet the chat also showed that Facebook’s upper echelons were determined to remain in Harris-Biden’s good graces, with one top executive, Nick Clegg (the first from a left-wing British political party), telling another: is clear that our calls This could color the way a new Biden administration sees us more than anything.”

Pretty embarrassing for a media company that claims to care about its users.

But the FBI is casting doubt on a story from the agency knew was true is further evidence that the “anti-disinformation industrial complex” is a productive process spreader of disinformation.

One with a blatant political bias, as evidenced by the federally funded Global Disinformation Index “blacklists” of conservative publications to the FBI encouraging social media sites to target right-wing accounts for suspension or removal.

And the politicization of rankings also extends to the US intelligence community: witness the 51 ‘spies who lied’ (at the request of the Biden campaign!) by signing a letter labeling the laptop stories as a clear ‘Russian information operation’ – and subsequently refused to apologize then it turned out they were completely wrong.

The more our high-minded “best and brightest” claim to protect us from “bad” information, the more they appear to have opinions. own interests at heart.