"I regret that we were not more outspoken about it," he continued. Zuckerberg also said that the FBI warned his company about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in 2020, which led to its erroneous demotion of the Hunter Biden laptop story. In retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story, he added.
Mike Huckabee was having none of it. It's really remarkable that, first of all, the government put the pressure on Facebook. You know what's equally remarkable? That Facebook accepted the pressure! Why didn't they say, 'We're not going to let the government tell us what to print, tell us what to say, tell us what to think.' Well, that's an abuse of the First Amendment.'
Huckabee continued, "Look, the 2020 election was definitely influenced by the misinformation, by the lies and the distortions that were told. Facebook was a big part of that. They played the game and they played it to win for Joe Biden. They cannot come back now and pretend Aw, we really didn't mean it. We're really good guys.' No, they're not good guys, and let's not pretend that they are.
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