Joe Rogan asked Mark Zuckerberg if he 'censored' the Hunter Biden laptop story. The CEO used the opportunity to defend the FBI as a 'legitimate institution.'

• The FBI is a legitimate institution, according to Mark Zuckerberg.

• The FBI advised him to be on guard for divisive content around the election, he said.

• The FBI was defunded after it raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

Facebook, now Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he thinks the FBI is a "legitimate institution" amid far-right GOP figures calling for the agency to be defunded after it raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

The late 2020 New York Post story involving the laptop of now- President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was one of the topics discussed by Joe Rogan on his show.

The FBI had already approached his company, warning them to be on the lookout for polarizing content, just as Russian propaganda made the platform its home around the 2016 US presidential election, according to Facebook's founder.

If the FBI comes to us and tells us we need to be on guard, then I want to take that seriously.

It did not ban users from sharing the NY Post story, but it did take a different approach. The story didn't show up in people's News Feed as much as it could have, meaning it got less traffic.

"'We have it on notice that there is about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that, so just be vigilant,''" the FBI told Facebook, according to Zuckerberg, who noted that he couldn't recall if they warned him about the NY Post story

The NY Post story, which was published just a few months before the 2020 US Presidential Election, became a favorite talking point for conservatives who alleged major internet companies discriminated against them.

The URL of the story was banned from the site by the company.

The FBI obtained a search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in order to find out if he mishandled classified government documents. According to the New York Times, the government has retrieved hundreds of documents with Trump's markings since he left office.

Conservatives have been trying to push back on plans to defund the police, but pro-Trump figures advocated for the FBI to be stripped of its funding.

Business Insider has an article on it.