In a letter to Facebook, Senate Republicans Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson demanded that the company turn over any correspondence it has with the FBI and the DOJ about Hunter Biden’s laptop and business operations.
In addition to asking for Mark Zuckerberg’s identity, the letter wants the identities of FBI and DOJ agents who allegedly informed the social media giant that a document dump before to the 2020 election was “Russian misinformation.”
According to sources, Facebook was compelled by that threat to filter and remove the New York Post’s stories on the laptop.
The American public want to know if the FBI utilised Facebook as part of their alleged scheme to undermine information concerning Hunter Biden, Johnson and Grassley wrote.
Grassley informed Iowa Republicans on Sunday that he would keep looking into Hunter Biden and that he intended to expose any “political prejudice” within the FBI.
The Hunter Biden laptop saga was publicly mentioned by Zuckerberg on Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
The tech tycoon detailed how, despite the platform’s partial blocking of the article, unlike Twitter, it was still pushed down users’ newsfeeds for up to a week until further information that would clarify whether the report was accurate or not was released.
The platform, he said, made the decision to restrict tale sharing but not outright prohibit it.
Ahead of the election in November 2020, the FBI warned Meta’s staff to be on the lookout for Russian propaganda.
Around the same time, the New York Post published the initial account of the scandalous information found on Hunter Biden’s computer, which Twitter later decided to hide.
The laptop tale “has all the typical earmarks of a Russian information operation,” according to a letter signed at the time by more than 50 former senior intelligence officers.
Therefore, we chose a different route than Twitter, added Zuckerberg. The FBI really came to us — or at least certain members of our team — and said, “Hey, like, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert.”
There was the — we believed that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, he said. We are aware that there will likely be some kind of dump of, or anything like. So just be careful.
Following Zuckerberg’s allegations, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared: “In an effort to restrict your access to information, the FBI collaborated with Big Tech to put a stop to news reports weeks before the 2020 election.”
Democrats in Congress have consciously chosen to ignore the truth. We will hold them all responsible once Republicans regain control of the government.
The cover-up, according to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, was “total corruption, plain and simple.”
On Monday, Trump said on Truth Social that if the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was first reported by the New York Post but later confirmed by DailyMail.com and other outlets, had gone viral, he would have won the election.
The president’s son’s laptop included many obscene images, including those of his sex life and drug usage, as well as records of his international business operations.
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, the Biden campaign attempted to dismiss the reports by claiming the laptop was another example of Russian election meddling.
After the newspaper published a story on the laptop’s contents, Twitter temporarily suspended the New York Post’s account.
When FBI Director James Comey informed members of Congress that the investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton’s private email server had been reopened only two weeks before election day, the former president probably profited politically in the 2016 election cycle.
The FBI was looking into the connections between the Trump campaign and Russia at the same time, but they didn’t make public their findings until after the Republican won the 2016 election.
How a political uproar was sparked by Hunter Biden’s laptop
Hunter abandoned the laptop at Jon Paul Mac Isaac’s shop in 2019 and never came back to get it.
After giving it to the FBI, he handed it over, and eight months later, in September 2020, Mac Isaac delivered Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for Donald Trump, a copy of the hard drive.
Giuliani allegedly subsequently delivered a copy of the drive to Trump adviser Steve Bannon and his podcast co-host Jack Maxey in addition to leaking papers and images from the disc to the New York Post.
Three weeks before the election, on October 14, the New York Post broke the bombshell regarding a purported meeting between Joe Biden and a Ukrainian billionaire that was discovered in Hunter’s emails.
More publications concerning Hunter’s drug and sex life as well as his connection with China surfaced.
The article and its source were questioned by mainstream media outlets, and many speculated that it may have been a product of Putin’s disinformation operation to sway the election.
However, the New York Post has seen proof of an FBI demand for the hard drive and computer’s seizure, dated December 2019.
The New York Times and other major news organisations did not validate the laptop and its contents until March 2021, although DailyMail.com had already done so.