Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lashes back at President Donald Trump tweet on Wednesday morning, after he criticized the social network.
In a post on Facebook, Mark said the claims of Trump are the opposite of what liberals and the media argued following his election.
“Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like," he wrote.
Mark's response came on the same day that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been asked to testify before Congress on November 1st, where they’ll face questions about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and how it might have used their platforms to spread misinformation in an attempt to influence the outcome.
But he admitted he had underestimated the impact of misinformation on the election.
“After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea,” he wrote. “Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it. This is too important an issue to be dismissive.
"Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @WaPo were anti-Trump. Conclusion@?'' Trump tweets..
He listed the positive impacts of the site during the election – including get out the vote efforts and the fact that every candidate had a page to promote their own ideas and interact directly with voters and added that facebook is under intense pressure to do more to help stop the spread of “fake news”.
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