Boy, did Mark Zuckerberg leave a lot unanswered in his bid to blame the FBI for what he now admits was Facebook’s mistaken decision to stifle The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reporting in the runup to the 2020 election.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is plainly right to call for Congress to get the full story.
Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that the FBI had warned Facebook off a coming “dump” of possible misinformation. But he stumbled through a deeply unconvincing dodge when Rogan asked if the FBI had specifically mentioned the laptop, suggesting only that our Hunter reports “fit the pattern” and hiding behind the “fact checkers” Facebook has chosen — who lean decidedly left.
Note, too, that Zuck had dumped nearly half a billion on a 2020 “get out the vote” effort that plainly aimed to get out Democratic votes.
Other questions center on the FBI: What did it actually tell Facebook? Did it only concern possible anti-Biden misinformation? (The site didn’t suppress anything anti-Trump, as best we can tell.) How exactly did the Bureau identify the threat? What could’ve led Facebook to classify well-sourced reporting from a professional news operation as misinformation?
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