Posted on 11/14/2016 7:38:03 AM PST by Enlightened1
The Facebook CEO published a post defending the social network's role in the election on Sunday.
Just in case you missed it first time, Mark Zuckerberg has once again defended the role Facebook played in the presidential election.
The social network's chief executive and co-founder responded on Sunday to accusations that Facebook played a role in promoting news biased towards Trump throughout the presidential election campaign.
Zuckerberg expanded on points he made during the Techonomy conference last week with a post on Facebook, which he used "to share some thoughts" on "an historic election" that he acknowledged has been "very painful for many people."
He admitted that Facebook had work to do when identifying fake news. "We have made progress, and we will continue to work on this to improve further," he said.
More than 99 percent of content on Facebook is authentic and the small amount that isn't is rarely political or biased in any particular way, Zuckerberg said. Facebook already allows users to flag stories that aren't true and is looking for more ways in which it can harness the community to prevent false news from being spread.
The social network must be careful though to ensure it is overstepping its boundaries when it comes to freedom of speech, though, the Facebook CEO said. "I am confident we can find ways for our community to tell us what content is most meaningful, but I believe we must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves."
Anyhow, Facebook better look at history if they wish to remain relevant.
Digg and Reedit tried CENSORING a while back. It killed Digg's traffic, and Reedit stopped censoring.
Today Reedit leans right and huge anti-establishment web site. Digg is now the new My Space.
I'll admit Conservatives have been jacking into Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc...) and just simply over whelming it our message.
Trump has been able to bypass the so called MSM and just eat their censor lunch.
Crack down huh.
So up to now they have been crack up?
Yes, crack down on all those conservatives pushing all that fake news.
FUsuckerburg
And by “fake”, Zuckerberg likely means “conservative”.
[citation needed]
They've got to be kidding.
One of the reasons the MSM was so wrongon the election outcome is that Social Media had circumvented them. The real story was told and spread via viral videos and memes and web stories.
Social media, the FBI, this and that. Yes: BLAME HILLARY!
Like NYT and WaPo?
Social media huh?
#thebusesarecoming.
Translation: FB will delete new stories that don’t toe the liberal line.
Probably looking for a way to crack down on the truth being posted.
They’re un-friending MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc.?
There were fake trump posts to like the people magazine article that said the voters are dumb and if I run I would win since they are stupid. From 1998 and found to be false.
I only do FB and I got tons of conservative election news. It helps having all Christian conservatives as friends including some news groups. I got updates from Trump headquarters. It brought out 2/3 liberals I had no clue they were that odd. When they spewed their liberal nonsense, I hid the posts and read the others and went on about my business. No big deal. They have the right to be wrong.
Low-info voter response.....
Sounds like a bad business decision, if real.
OH ITS............
barky.
war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength....the dem party.....
I doubt they mean it. They just want to define/censor what users are allowed to see.
If they do mean it, I hope CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc will follow their lead.
Exactly.
WE are the journalists now.
It has to be this way. The formal media has made itself irrelevant.
There is no other choice but for citizen journalists to step into the breach.
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