Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook

San Jose Mercury-News ^ | September 25, 2017 | By THE WASHINGTON POST

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company’s 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 Russia’s brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign without making matters worse. Weeks after Trump’s surprise victory, some of Obama’s 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 Trump’s 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.

Congressional investigators say the disclosure only scratches the surface. One called Facebook’s discoveries thus far “the tip of the iceberg.” Nobody really knows how many accounts are out there and how to prevent more of them from being created to shape the next election – and turn American society against itself.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SJMN and WaPo still on bended knees for Barry.

[pinkandgreenmom]

At this rate, Hillary is going to have to publish an addendum to her book with even yet more excuses.

[beergarden]

“Weeks after Trump’s surprise victory, some of Obama’s aides looked back with regret and wished they had done more.”

Dont bother. You did lots of damage for 8 years to my country.

[a fool in paradise]

In 2004 MoveOn.Org was colluding with foreigners among the Far Left in Europe to create webbased ad campaigns against the Bush reelection effort.

[SERKIT]

Obama to Zuckerberg: “All our fake news belong to us!”

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Tried but failed, the same old Obama story.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

No shid - WaPo wants to give all the subtle details on this, in order to imply that Obama tried, but where are they on the issue of interference in elections from domestic sources? How about Google skewing search results during the election? An illegal in-kind contribution to Hillary's campaign, but not a question.

[DoughtyOne]

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I'm so sick of this fraud.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Agreed, lol.

[DoughtyOne]

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Weeks after Trump’s surprise victory, some of Obama’s aides looked back with regret and wished they had done more.”

Sounds like they are confessing to FISA crimes and wish they'd committed more.

[Pietro]

So what were these “fake” news stories that changed the election?

[Clutch Martin]

Don’t be surprised if this story is fake news. It screams bull excrement.

[editor-surveyor]

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The Murkey nooz gets murkier.
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[gibsonguy]

BS

[Leep]

Didn’t Obama already say there is no such thing as election tampering?

[Chewbarkah]

“For months leading up to the vote, Obama and his top aides quietly agonized over how to respond to Russia’s brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign without making matters worse.”

So there was some reason Obama couldn’t have said, “Ads by _____ on Facebook appear to be paid for by the Russian government as a trick to help Trump. Caveat emptor”?

Even Obama is not that stupid. This is just cover for what Obama really wants: For FaceBook, Twitter, and the like to censor ALL views, posters, ads, businesses, etc., that are not cheerleading for the Democrats and the Left. A Lois Lerner program for the internet, because free speech and communism don’t mix.

[InterceptPoint]

I'm so sick of this fraud.

Me too.

So much, in fact, that I find myslef longing for a return to the good old days of HIV=AIDS and GLOBAL WARMING. Oops, strike that. I should have writen CLIMATE CHANGE.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, be careful there. Climate Change...

[jmaroneps37]

THIS itself is FAKE NEWS! Go away with this lie!