Posted on 11/13/2016 1:34:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Facebook has been under the spotlight following the results of this week’s presidential election. While Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed claims that his company has unduly influenced the election, others at Facebook are beginning to look closely at their role in the media landscape, according to The New York Times.
Last night, Zuckerberg posted a lengthy status update to his page, outlining his thoughts on his company's role in the election, noting that "99 percent of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes."
According to The New York Times, several senior officials at the company began chatting internally late Tuesday evening, "questioning what [Facebook's] responsibilities might be." This election appears to be a wakeup for the company, which has seen itself itself as a blank slate for anyone to express themselves and their views. Earlier this week, the company did admit that it has "more work to do" when it comes to combatting misinformation, even as it attempts to avoid becoming a referee.
Zuckerberg noted that Facebook has launched an initiative to allow users to flag fake and hoax stories, and that it has more work ahead of it. However, he pushed back on the idea that the company was in the media business, responding to one commenter that "news and media are not the primary things people do on Facebook, so I find it odd when people insist we call ourselves a news or media company in order to acknowledge its importance."
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The Global Elites will insist on their version of “truth” ruling Facebook. Zumerberg will be obliged to comply.
Screw you, Marky!
This is so easy.
F___book can indicate next to every item that either the Democratic National Committee has approved it or it is fake!
And speaking of “fake news”, the NYT leads the league in that.
The trending news on Facebook in the days following the election alone have been CRIMINALLY biased against Trump. EVERY major news item has been, well take your pick: persuading electors to vote for Hillary, anti-Trump "protests", Robert Di Nino, Michael Moore, the #notmypresident and #safetypin hashtags, Trump endangering the Affordable Care Act, Aaron Sorkin's letter to his daughter...
Zuckerberg has no credibility whatsoever setting himself and Facebook up as brokers in truthful information.
One of most annoying things on faceboob is people post meme’s that are either completely false or half truths...
Our ill-educated young people have no sense of history or maturity to tell the difference...between a truth and a lie...
Just today, I saw a meme about how we need to stop shoeing horses because it is painful and hurts them...
Truth my arse! Most of what is on there is untrue.
Zuckerberg/Fbook has credibility in suppressing truth.
Buys all his neighbors’ houses, wants ULTIMATE form of privacy, builds huge wall around his Kauai compound.
YOUR privacy, though..?
Mark doesn’t DO your privacy, he does HIS privacy.
If only there was a hardcopy version of Facebook that came on a roll with perforations, it could serve a useful purpose.
H1-B visas
Yeah, good to see the heavy lifting they did for the Hillary landslide...</s>.
The massive silicon valley companies are the Robber Barons of the 21st century, at least by standard leftist definition
monopolistic, highly political, unfair competitors.
zuckerberg is a wealthy idiot. He is no friend of Freedom and Free peoples.
They already have. Often if you post a conservative opinion, they tell you that that thread is not available right now. (I always just post the same thing again immediately, and that always works.)
Force FakeBook to make a one step delete of the ID and history.
Bingo Mark has nothing to sell.
The liars at fakebook, NY slimes and the Clinton News Network can all go screw themselves. You have made it clear to the masses who used to trust you that you are liars and frauds. Only the 30% of Americans who are shameless commie libs like you anymore because they eat up your lies and parrot them.
The 30% who are conservatives found you out long ago. But now you have exposed yourselves to the 40% in the middle who used to trust you.
You are screwed. Nobody believes you anymore. Deal with it.
They called Pennsylvania for Trump before Fox News did.
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