[myko]

> Edit: Wasn't it Zuckerberg himself that said the FBI reached out to him about limiting the visibility of certain news?

No. The FBI reached out to Facebook to let them know how Russia tended to try to influence US citizens with fake news or by amplifying fake aspects of real news using social networks, including Facebook.

A lot of folks thought this was bad because it led to Facebook not amplifying (not removing, not blocking, just not promoting) the Hunter Biden laptop claims, because the story met the hallmarks of what the FBI pointed out to the team. It still does.

[Banyonite]

>> It still does.

Out of curiosity (honestly), how does it?

[dd36]

From what I’ve read, it seems to be cloud hacked data placed in a laptop and deliberately turned into a partisan repair shop in an attempt to wash that it was hacked just like DNC/Podesta stuff.

Thus the media treated it as hacked attempted manipulation.

That said, everyone knew about it and it’s not exactly news that Hunter Biden, like many in that world, was trading off his father’s position and had a drug problem. Indeed, it wouldn’t be surprising if he was targeted by our enemies to be compromised. Any high level executive’s kid with a drug problem is low hanging fruit for kompromat.

[dd36]

I strongly agree with this comment.

“Even if we assume the crazy sounding laptop repair shop story were 100% true, we had partisan political operatives shopping a story to journalists about the supposedly scandalous revelations cribbed from the contents of someone's stolen email communications and electronic data in the midst of a presidential election campaign homestretch. The fact that some of the information has since been authenticated by the nYT or WaPO as belonging to Hunter Biden doesn't change anything. The Clinton emails that were dumped by Wikileaks in 2016 were also authentic. Didn't make them any less stolen or render their release combined with the gross misrepresentation of their contents to feed unsupported narratives less problematic, nor did their authenticity make it any less a part of a Russian influence operation.”