The CEO of a left-leaning fact-checker claims that the government, not fact-checkers, is responsible for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop.

Chris Richmond, CEO of Snopes, stated on Saturday that the U.S. government was responsible for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, and claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, complied with the administration at the time.

The government, not fact-checkers, pressured Facebook to limit the reach of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was then blamed on the fact-checkers, according to Richmond's statement on MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Saturday.

On Tuesday, Zuckerberg declared that Facebook and Instagram would be discontinuing their fact-check program.

Richmond stated that if Kamala Harris had won, he would not be taking the same actions now. He complied with the government's wishes at the time and is currently doing so under the new administration.

In October 2020, the New York Post published a report on the Hunter Biden laptop, which was later buried by Big Tech, including Twitter and Facebook.

Elon Musk's community notes on X served as a model for Zuckerberg, who expressed interest in implementing a similar program.

The community note system is excellent, but it should be more transparent. Facebook's black box system allows them to do as they please and blame others, which is not what we want. We should advocate for a more transparent system. However, removing fact-checkers from the process is a significant issue.

On Friday, Zuckerberg discussed with Joe Rogan on his podcast that members of the Biden administration frequently requested the removal of social media posts regarding the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Zuckerberg elaborated on the issue of "government censorship," stating that much of it has been examined by the congressional investigation. He added, "I mean basically these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and scream at them, curse, and it's like... these documents are all out there."

Zuckerberg stated that the conflict between his company and the government had reached a point where they were unwilling to remove content deemed true, which he considered absurd.

Planet Chronicle' Alex Hall contributed to this report