Mark Zuckerberg admits he should have taken Facebook fake news and the election more seriously: ‘Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it’
https://www.recode.net/2017/9/27/16376502/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-donald-trump-fake-news
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted today that he was wrong to dismiss the idea that so-called “fake news” on Facebook influenced the election back in November — he had initially called the notion “crazy.”
“Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post today. “This is too important an issue to be dismissive.”
Mark Zuckerberg admits he should have taken Facebook fake news and the election more seriously: ‘Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it’
Sep 28, 2017, 4:16am UTC
https://www.recode.net/2017/9/27/16376502/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-donald-trump-fake-news
>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted today that he was wrong to dismiss the idea that so-called “fake news” on Facebook influenced the election back in November — he had initially called the notion “crazy.”
>“Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post today. “This is too important an issue to be dismissive.”