FBI Responds to Its Facebook Scandal By Treating Americans Like They Are Idiots – Opinion

On Friday, the stunning news broke that the FBI had gone to Facebook in October of 2020 to “warn” the social media giant that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. That revelation came via Mark Zuckerberg himself on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

The FBI’s actions helped pushed a regime of censorship just prior to the election that very well could have altered the results given the small margin in three states that decided things. This was election interference at a staggering scale that could only have been explained through political weaponization.

Of course, the FBI thinks that the American people are idiots, so they’ve offered a lump of weasel words in response knowing a willing press will run the headlines they want. Here’s NBC News with its report.

In a statement Friday night, the FBI said it has provided companies with “foreign threat indicators” to help protect their platforms and customers, but that it “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”

“The FBI routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats,” the agency said.

What did you do? The FBI “cannot ask, or direct companies to take action on information received.” Clearly, that means the bureau did nothing wrong here. The FBI was merely advising and letting social media companies go at their own pace.

This willfully ignores the main point of why people even criticize FBI. As I explained in a prior article, they’ve had Hunter Biden’s laptop since 2019. What that logically means is that when FBI agents went to Facebook (and presumably, all other major social media companies) to “warn” about a “threat” that they knew was false.

It was obvious that this laptop did not contain Russian disinformation. The FBI lied about it anyway knowing that Facebook and other social media platforms would censor the story. Why? Why? Because these same companies have been subject to heavy congressional pressures to stop misinformation and disinformation. In other words, whether the FBI actually “directed” Facebook to do anything is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that they set the stage for what happened, knowing that they were misleading the social media companies in doing so. The irony of all ironies was that the FBI used disinformation as a way to hurt a political opponent.

The pattern becomes clear when you consider that the FBI actively tried to suppress Hunter Biden’s investigation prior to the 2020 elections. This bureau was created to assist Joe Biden in his ascent into the White House. You are treated with contempt by these people. What else was done that we don’t know about? That’s the million-dollar question, and it’s one that must be answered when Republicans retake power.

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