FBI accused of using ‘disinformation’ as a weapon in response to Hunter Biden laptop story on Facebook
It is now evident why social media platforms rushed to suppress The Post’s series on Hunter Biden’s laptop: The FBI had prepared them to expect “Russian disinformation” on that specific topic – and Facebook executives wanted to please the assumed incoming Harris-Biden administration.
Chat logs from Facebook employees, revealed in an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, indicate that the FBI laid the groundwork for censorship by informing social media platforms that Russian agents were allegedly preparing “fake news” about Hunter Biden and Ukraine.
Therefore, when The Post’s reporting on the laptop was released, a Facebook employee immediately dismissed it as the “exact content expected for hack and leak.”
This occurred nearly a year after another part of the FBI internally verified the authenticity of the Hunter laptop, information that the agency inadvertently shared with some Twitter employees but seemingly withheld from Facebook.
With most other major media outlets also following the “misinformation” narrative (instead of investigating and reporting the story themselves, as they did with the actual disinformation of the fake “Russiagate” scandal), Facebook and Twitter actively suppressed our reporting.
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg later acknowledged that suppressing the story was a mistake, and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey also expressed regrets.
However, the chat also revealed that Facebook’s leadership was determined to remain in the good graces of Harris-Biden, with a top executive, Nick Clegg (former head of a left-wing British political party), telling another: “Obviously, our decisions on this could impact the way an incoming Biden administration perceives us more than almost anything else.”
It’s quite disgraceful for a media company that claims to prioritize its users.
Yet the FBI casting doubt on a story that the bureau knew was true is further evidence that the “anti-disinformation industrial complex” is a significant spreader of disinformation.
One that exhibits clear political bias, as demonstrated by the federally-subsidized Global Disinformation Index’s “blacklists” of conservative publications and the FBI encouraging social media platforms to target right-wing accounts for suspension or removal.
Moreover, the rampant politicization extends to the US intelligence community: evidenced by the 51 “spies who lied” (at the Biden campaign’s behest!) by signing a letter denouncing the laptop stories as an apparent “Russian information operation” – and refusing to apologize when proven wrong.
The more our esteemed “best and brightest” claim to protect us from “bad” information, the clearer it becomes that they prioritize their own interests.
