In 2016 Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, scoffed at the idea that trolls posting fake news on Facebook would have any impact on the presidential election, calling it “crazy”: Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, of which it’s a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea. Voters make decisions based on their lived experience. … There is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason someone could have voted the way they did is because they saw some fake news.17 But in 2017, after internal investigations
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