Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook (axios.com)

From an Axios report: Mark Zuckerberg started 2017 scoffing at the idea of Russia election manipulation on Facebook, and looked like he was contemplating his own possible run for the presidency. Facebook's CEO ends 2017 a very changed man: scrambling to curtail (some of) the manipulation he now acknowledges exists, and to save the most powerful platform in human history. A Facebook exec tells us: "This is the year people will see we get that there's real work to do. We have to change."

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Re:President

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump is hated only by a tiny, noisy, vacuous group of snowflakes.

Re:Of course he would say that

[RedK]

Of course that is what he would say. Otherwise he and his company are complicit in a crime.

The crime of selling 100k worth of ads, that promoted both sides ? Which statute does that break exactly ? The fact is : the "Facebook election manipulation" thing ended being a big nothing burger. Once the actual meat came out, we found out that again, MSM was pushing a fake news narrative of "Facebook exploitation" that just didn't happen in the way they needed to in order to make Trump look bad. He again ended being right about the MSM only being out to attack him.

If anything, the ads just served as confirmation bias to people on either side, and were used more to sow discord than to actually influence the election one way or another.