Posted on 11/01/2017 1:17:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as crazy the idea that fake news on his companys social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled the youthful tech billionaire aside and delivered what he hoped would be a wake-up call.
For months leading up to the vote, Obama and his top aides quietly agonized over how to respond to Russias brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign without making matters worse. Weeks after Trumps surprise victory, some of Obamas aides looked back with regret and wished they had done more.
Now huddled in a private room on the sidelines of a meeting of world leaders in Lima, Peru, two months before Trumps inauguration, Obama made a personal appeal to Zuckerberg to take the threat of fake news and political disinformation seriously. Unless Facebook and the government did more to address the threat, Obama warned, it would only get worse in the next presidential race.
Zuckerberg acknowledged the problem posed by fake news. But he told Obama those messages werent widespread on Facebook and that there was no easy fix, according to people briefed on the exchange, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of a private conversation.
In the electrified aftermath of the election, aides to Hillary Clinton and Obama pored over polling numbers and turnout data, looking for clues to explain what they saw as an unnatural turn of events.
One of the theories to emerge from their post-mortem was that Russian operatives who were directed by the Kremlin to support Trump may have taken advantage of Facebook and other social media platforms to direct their messages to American voters in key demographic areas in order to increase enthusiasm for Trump and suppress support for Clinton.
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Should have known...the Washington (com)Post.
Where are the examples of this fake news,faked tweets and fake blogs?
More FAKE NEWS!
And following the election the Russians trolled with anti-Trump talking points.
Aren’t they now saying that 126,000,000 were reached? Nearly half the US?
They voted against the monster that Hillary is and all her lies and deviousness etc etc....period.
Lots of speculation and "theories", but no facts or evidence presented.
One of those liberal, "iffa, coulda' woulda', shoulda', but didn't" moments.
But they keep drilling deeper into the numbers with no thought whatsoever that they might have had just a really bad candidate. They can't seem to understand why their corrupt, lying crook didn't win.
Might have been because she was a corrupt, lying crook.
Fake news about fake news. Wow.
a ridiculous story...... brings into sharp focus the vengeful idiot that defrauded his way into our white house.
the weird thing that was once called president cant stand losing his third term
the barefaced vengeance against trump will not be tolerated
Total bullcrap. Obama “agonized” over how to best screw Trump with the fake dossier Hilary purchased from Russia.
Yeah you see I was going to vote for Hilary but a crappy Facebook ad made me stay home because of course that was the only source of information. And the Russians were brilliant they focused this in Wisconsin where the republican hadn’t won in 50 years. Gee how DID Wisconsin get do close?
More FAKE NEWS out of San Jose.
They hire reporters that aren't even qualified for mother jones or rolling stone.
The only thing you have to know; San Jose Mercury News.
ALL LIB/PROG/DEM BULLSH!T, ALL THE TIME.
The only thing Obama ever agonized over was whether to tell Reggie Love that he was cheating on him - and when his drug stash was running low...
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