Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, said that Facebook limited some news about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 elections, and explained the reason for this decision.
Founder of Facebook and head of Meta. Mark Zuckerberg, may encounter difficult times due to activities on their platforms for a very long time. The effects of Facebook, which has been widely discussed with what it did and did not do, were even the subject of court.
Since then, Zuckerberg, who has not participated much in publications whose text is not known beforehand, surprisingly by Joe Rogan He was a guest on the podcast program. Rogan often controversial to podcasts he is known as a signatory and does not prepare a text in any way in advance.
The restrictions were due to FBI warnings.
The New York Post, who served as President of the United States today Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden She was helping her son deal with Ukraine in emails allegedly leaked from his laptop. Biden was the vice president of the United States at the time.
Facebook and twitter restricted the sharing of this article. For this reason, both platforms were accused of censorship. Zuckerberg, this misunderstanding of the situation “annoying” described as.
“It bothers me a lot to know that this decision was wrong. We did something we shouldn’t have done, and that’s the worst thing.” said Zuckerberg, as the reason for the restriction of the article. Warnings from the FBI showed. The New York Post article was published a few weeks before the US presidential election. Joe Biden in that election, Donald Trump defeated him to become President of the United States.
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According to The New York Post article Hunter BidenThis information came to light when he gave his computer for repair. It was claimed that Joe Biden’s meeting with some energy giants in Ukraine was arranged. On the other hand, the fact that Biden did not have such a meeting at that time and that only one newspaper could access this data was suspicious. According to Zuckerberg’s statements, the FBI, in the 2016 elections They thought Russian propaganda was playing an important role and asked them to be careful. Facebook also decided to restrict this article because it showed similarities to the aforementioned propaganda processes. Yet the article continues to be debated even today.