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Amid big Zuckerberg regret, FBI source who labeled Hunter’s laptop ‘Russian disinfo’ still a mystery

August 27, 2024 | | Print Article

Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell, the FBI, and a “rigged” 2020 election were all brought to mind as Mark Zuckerberg’s censorship admission left one pivotal question unanswered.

Well ahead of October, the 2024 election has been one surprise after another, and on Monday Meta’s CEO added on with a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (R). As the Facebook co-founder fessed up to facing pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to censor content to support their agenda, another admission that predated their control begged answers and accountability out of the FBI for peddling Hunter Biden’s laptop as disinformation.

Outkick co-founder Clay Travis shared the letter addressed to Jordan that came clean on how the story was “temporarily demoted,” essentially suppressing a report that may have impacted the 2020 election in the final days of the contest, and wrote, “Remember the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% real. Yet someone at the FBI told all the social media companies the laptop was Russian disinformation. We still don’t know who made this decision and rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden.”

As the outcome of the 2020 election was ultimately decided by a margin of a mere tens of thousands of votes across battleground states, the impact of 51 “intelligence experts” signing off on propaganda claiming that the laptop was disinformation could not go overlooked when a considerable number of voters who’d opted for now-President Joe Biden had indicated they would have reconsidered had they been aware of the allegations of influence-peddling and ties to foreign nations on the laptop.

Notably, the New York Times didn’t admit that the laptop was real until March 2022.

Travis called out corporate media complicity in support of the unidentified actors within the federal government as he drew a contrast suggesting how they may have reacted if former President Donald Trump had been the one accused of putting his thumb on the scale by impacting what information was made available to the American public.

“An easy test for media bias: if Zuckerberg had confessed Trump team pressured his company to censor stories they didn’t like & Trump FBI had falsely claimed a laptop they knew was real was fake to win an election how would @nytimes @MSNBC @cnn & @washingtonpost be covering it?” he asked. “Right now @nytimes & @washingtonpost don’t have this story on their main app’s top stories. If it exists at all, it’s completely buried. Compare this to how they covered Russia buying a tiny amount of Facebook ads for Trump in 2016. Which is the bigger story? Not even close.”

In a number of reactions from billionaire Elon Musk, he both lauded Zuckerberg for coming forward and slammed the government officials behind the censorship pressure when he argued, “Sounds like a First Amendment violation.”

“Good for [Zuckerberg]” he noted after having slammed the Meta CEO the day prior for caving to the pressures and giving “governments backdoor access to user data” amid reports of the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.

Like Travis, others raised the issue of the FBI’s involvement in censorship and demanded to see more than stern letters and outrage theater during a committee hearing on the path to real accountability.

Kevin Haggerty
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