Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to Congress that he regrets using his platform to censor the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal, while also admitting to pressure from the government to do so.

As Breitbart reports, Zuckerberg sent a letter to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, claiming that the FBI came to him to warn him that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a “Russian disinformation operation,” which led to him using his website to actively censor the link to the original story by the New York Post.

Once the article came out, detailing “corruption allegations” against Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and others in the Biden family, Zuckerberg said that Facebook “sent that story to fact-checkers” and had the story “temporarily demoted.”

“The FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election,” Zuckerberg confessed. “That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we went that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply.”

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg continued. “We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again — for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.”

Zuckerberg had previously admitted to the FBI’s role in pressuring him to censor the story during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. The new letter, however, marks the first time that he has personally admitted fault and confessed to regretting the decision.

Facebook was one of several major social media platforms which censored the story, with the social networking giant altering its algorithm so that any posts featuring the story would not reach as many users as they normally would. On Twitter, any attempt to post the URL to the Post article would see the user blocked from hitting the “post” button, making them literally unable to share the direct link.

The revelation of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which included numerous photos and videos of his drug use as well as his time with prostitutes, also confirmed many of Hunter’s international business deals in order to enrich his family, confirming longstanding allegations of corruption on the part of the entire Biden family. Many voters in the 2020 election admitted in subsequent polls that, if they had known about the scandal, they would not have voted for Joe Biden.