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."
Say what?
Twitter suspends several accounts in alt-right ‘purge’
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/11/15/twitter-reveals-new-features-combat-hate-speech/
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