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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he views the FBI as a “legitimate agency.”
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He told Joe Rogan that he advised the FBI to be wary of polarizing content around the 2020 election.
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Far-right Republicans demanded funding from the FBI after raiding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for classified documents.
Facebook, now Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, wants far-right Republicans to fund the FBI following the raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion In his request, he said he believed the FBI was a “legitimate agency.”
In a three-hour segment on podcaster Joe Rogan’s show, Rogan told Zuckerberg in a controversial New York Post article in late 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop, son of current President Joe Biden. We asked how his company handles content that gets news attention, such as articles on . If Facebook “censored it too”.
Zuckerberg says the FBI has already reached out to his firm, warning them to beware of polarizing content, just as Russian propaganda made the platform home around the 2016 US presidential election. did.
“We would like to see if the FBI — what I consider a legitimate agency in this country, it’s a very professional law enforcement agency — come to us and warn us about something. If we say we need to, we take it seriously,” Zuckerberg told Logan.
Zuckerberg said he took a different approach than Twitter and didn’t completely ban users from sharing NY Post stories. Facebook users were still allowed to share it, but the article appeared less in people’s NewsFeeds, which meant less traffic.
According to Zuckerberg, the FBI told Facebook, “‘We have been notified that a dump similar to that is about to take place. Please be careful.'” I was specific about the NY Post story, and I thought the story “fits the pattern.”
The New York Post article, published just months before the split in the 2020 US presidential election, has become a favorite topic among conservatives who say major internet companies are discriminating against them. .
Twitter banned the URL of the article from the site, It’s a move that then-CEO Jack Dorsey called “wrong.”
Earlier this month, the FBI obtained a federal search warrant against Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to determine whether he was mishandling classified government documents. new york times The government has recovered 300 documents bearing Trump’s seal since he resigned in January 2021, including those seized by the FBI, the government reported Monday.
Trump supporters such as Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosser advocated defunding the FBIin contrast to years of conservative efforts to push back on leftist plans to defund the police.
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