Mark Zuckerberg confesses, Facebook censored news of ‘Hunter Biden’s laptop’ for 1 week

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New York: Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that Facebook algorithmically censored news reports on the laptop of Hunter Biden, son of current US President Joe Biden, for a week. Zuckerberg confessed this on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Mark said he did this because of a general request from the FBI to restrict misinformation in the election. During the podcast, Joe asked Zuckerberg ‘how does Facebook handle controversial issues… like the Hunter Biden news, and was it censored?’

According to a news of news agency ANI, in response to this, Mark Zuckerberg said that for this he took a different route from Twitter. FBI people came to him and said that he should be alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. Mark criticized Twitter for completely blocking the news, admitting that he censored the news on Facebook, reducing its reach.

He said that our protocol is different from Twitter. Twitter said you can’t share it at all. We didn’t do that. If we are told of any potential misinformation, we conduct a third-party fact check. Because we don’t want to decide what is right and what is wrong? It took five or seven days to decide. Its reach on Facebook was reduced but people were allowed to share it.

Mark Zuckerberg said that this had lowered the rankings and newsfeed a bit, so fewer people would have seen it. This is a political issue. So depending on your political leanings, you may feel that we didn’t censor it enough or didn’t censor it too much. Yet we weren’t judging it in black and white like on Twitter. Significantly, when this controversy was going on, Republicans accused Facebook of suppressing his voice.

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