Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a 'Crazy Idea' (fortune.com)

A lot of questions are emerging about Facebook's role in this year's election cycle, especially given the proliferation of sensationalistic and even outright fake news stories, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded. From a report on Fortune: "I think the idea that fake news on Facebook -- of which it's a very small amount of the content -- influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea," he said on Thursday at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif., just two days after Donald Trump was elected president, according to media reports. "There have been hoaxes on the Internet, there were hoaxes before," he said. "We do our best to make it so that people can report that, and as I said before, we can show people the most meaningful content we can."

Comments

Re:No, not fake news

[bickerdyke]

Only if you're more keen on finding an easy target to blame.

Pointing at facebook is much easier than starting to educate people.

Next step. Sue him for something. Anything. But it's easy taking a crap shot at someone with deep pockets.

Re:Show us the data

[DogDude]

By "bias" do you mean "tell the truth"? It's pretty hard to create any more bias against somebody as odious as Trump. What else can you say about him that he didn't do already? He is hiding his income and taxes. He clearly hates non-white, non-straight non-male people. He incites violence. He knows next to nothing about anything. What else is there to make up about him? That he's a child molester? That might actually be true, too (civil case pending).