Facebook Should Preserve Any FBI, Hunter Biden Communications: House GOP

House GOP lawmakers on Thursday issued a demand to obtain communications between Facebook and the FBI after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last weekend that he received messages from the bureau about possible Russian propaganda and decided to suppress the reach of late 2020 reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Both Facebook and Twitter reduced the reach or blocked a New York Post report on the younger Biden’s laptop that revealed his extensive business dealings with a Chinese regime-linked company and in other countries.

At the time, some former officials and Democrats alleged the story was a Russian disinformation plot, but the laptop contents were later corroborated by a Biden associate. That same associate, Tony Boulinksi, received several emails from Biden and confirmed President Joe Biden was the individual referenced as “the big guy” in those messages.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, and others sent (pdf) a letter to Zuckerberg Thursday and said that  “shortly before the 2020 presidential election, Facebook suppressed an explosive New York Post article detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now-President Biden, for personal gain, with the apparent awareness of President Biden.”

They referenced Zuckerberg’s interview with podcast host Joe Rogan several days ago when he said the FBI “basically came to us” in 2020 and said that “you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that, basically, there’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that. So just be vigilant.”

‘Formal Request’

Targeting Zuckerberg’s FBI comment, Jordan and fellow Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said they want more details.

“You acknowledged that this official alert from the FBI is what led to Facebook reducing the

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