Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined The Joe Rogan Experience for the first time this weekend, and revealed the FBI asked Facebook to restrict the story about Hunter Biden’s, the now-President’s son, laptop.
After noting Facebook “took a different path than Twitter”, Zuckerberg said “The FBI, I think basically came to us, some folks on our team, and was like, ‘Hey, um, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump of — that’s similar to that. So just be vigilant.’”
Zuckerberg said Twitter’s policy is a complete inability to share the story, but Facebook uses a third party fact-checking program to decide the validity of such claims.
“I think it was five or seven days when it was basically being determined, whether it was false,” Zuckerberg said. “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.”
Rogan then questioned the Meta CEO on the definition of “decreased distribution”, with Zuckerberg noting, essentially, it removed the story from Facebook newsfeeds for five to seven days.