Mark Zuckerberg has sparked outrage with his bombshell revelation that Facebook deliberately used an algorithm to suppress stories about Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020 before the November election after an intervention by the FBI.
Republican politicians and voters have accused the FBI and Facebook of censorship, adding further questions about whether Americans should have been aware of the laptop before going to the polls and the impartiality of the bureau head Chris Wray, who ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago this month.
The GOP have torn into the quashing of the story and have vowed to investigate Zuckerberg, the FBI and Hunter if they retake the majority in the House in the midterms.
Republican Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia said: 'This isn't just insane, it's election interference. The Oversight Committee must immediately invite Mark Zuckerberg to testify—under oath—about the FBI’s attempts to circumvent the First Amendment. The American people deserve answers and accountability.'
GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy added: 'The FBI colluded with Big Tech to silence news stories weeks before the 2020 election in an attempt to control your access to information.
'Democrats in Congress have been intentionally ignoring the facts. When Republicans are back in charge, we will hold all of them accountable.'
Zuckerberg said Facebook enacted a policy of 'decreased distribution' to deliberately push down the story on people's newsfeeds to limit its reach, while Twitter went even further and banned the story from its platform.
The billionaire said: 'I think it was five or seven days when it was basically being determined whether it was false. The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it. So you could still share it. You could still consume it.'
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