Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t believe his social network or news platform had any negative influence on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
“Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said the Facebook CEO Thursday night at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif..
Writing in a post on Facebook Saturday, the CEO responded again to critics who believe the social network didn’t do enough fight the spread of misinformation. Zuckerberg wrote it was “extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other.”
“We don’t want any hoaxes on Facebook. Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful,” said Zuckerberg in the post. The CEO did say the company will work on fake news stories, but said only a small amount is fake and news and hoaxes.”
Zuckerberg wrote: “Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes. The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics. Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other.
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