{"id":87591,"date":"2022-09-02T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/?p=87591"},"modified":"2022-09-02T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:58:20","slug":"gop-senators-demand-facebook-hands-over-conversations-with-fbi-over-suppressing-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal-and-name-the-agents-who-falsely-them-it-was-russian-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/?p=87591","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators DEMAND Facebook hands over conversations with FBI over suppressing Hunter Biden laptop scandal &#8211; AND name the agents who falsely them it was Russian disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">New York &#8211; Free Yemen Eye &#8211; From<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Dailymail<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The letter, addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, also requests names of FBI and DOJ officials who told Facebook the news was &#8216;Russian disinformation&#8217;<br \/>\nThat warning allegedly pushed Facebook to censor and shut down reports regarding the laptop<br \/>\n&#8216;The American people deserve to know whether the FBI used Facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about Hunter Biden,&#8217; they write<br \/>\nGrassley said he would continue investigating Biden and wanted to root out &#8216;political bias&#8217; within the FBI , during a gathering with Iowa Republicans Sunday<br \/>\nZuckerberg openly discussed the Hunter Biden laptop story on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Senate Republicans Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson have written a letter to Facebook demanding they hand over any communications they had with the FBI and the DOJ regarding Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop and business dealings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87592 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5798AC15-AFF4-48C4-A826-D4BBEF1011A6-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5798AC15-AFF4-48C4-A826-D4BBEF1011A6-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5798AC15-AFF4-48C4-A826-D4BBEF1011A6.jpeg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe letter, addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, also requests names of FBI and DOJ officials who told the social media behemoth that a document dump ahead of the 2020 election was &#8216;Russian disinformation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That warning allegedly pushed Facebook to censor and shut down reports regarding the laptop in the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nJohnson and Grassley write: &#8216;The American people deserve to know whether the FBI used Facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about Hunter Biden.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grassley said he would continue investigating Hunter Biden and wanted to root out &#8216;political bias&#8217; within the FBI , during a gathering with Iowa Republicans on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grassley and Ron Johnson wrote a letter to Facebook demanding they hand over any communications they had with the FBI and the DOJ regarding Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop and business dealings<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">President Joe Biden (left) and Hunter Biden (right) leaving church in South Carolina earlier this month. Republicans including former President Donald Trump are upset that stories about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop were buried on social media in the run-up to the 2020 election<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87593 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DAC0BAFC-97D9-429C-8E65-54DE50397981-248x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DAC0BAFC-97D9-429C-8E65-54DE50397981-248x300.jpeg 248w, https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DAC0BAFC-97D9-429C-8E65-54DE50397981.jpeg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><br \/>\nThey added: &#8216;If so, Congress and the American people require clarity with respect to the extent the FBI communicated with Facebook during the 2020 election about Hunter Biden-related information.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Zuckerberg openly discussed the Hunter Biden laptop story on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tech billionaire explained how although the platform did not completely block the story like Twitter, it was still pushed down users&#8217; newsfeeds for as long as a week until more information came down that would indicate whether the story was true or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said the platform decided to limit sharing of the story but not ban it entirely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The FBI told Meta employees to be wary of Russian propaganda ahead of the November 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed how the platform used an algorithm to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story when it first surfaced in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211; Free Yemen Eye &#8211; From Dailymail The letter, addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, also requests names of FBI and DOJ officials who told Facebook the news was &#8216;Russian disinformation&#8217; That warning allegedly pushed Facebook to censor and shut down reports regarding the laptop &#8216;The American people deserve to know whether the FBI used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}