Check Your Outrage At Trump At The Door: 5 Tips For The Media In Covering The Next PresidentDid Facebook’s “fake news stories” have a large influence on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Answer by Abhinav Sharma, former Facebook employee, on Quora:Did Facebook’s “fake news stories” have a large influence on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? The only people who have the right answer to this question work at Facebook and won’t tell us this in a public sphere. This’ll get Facebook into politically gray territory, but it’s not completely out of the question, Google editorializes what sources they consider to be “news”; see Rob Ennals’ answer to Did Facebook’s “fake news stories” have a large influence on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? If you actually do a user study with many 60-year-olds who passively use the internet, they really can’t tell between a new media website that’s real information vs. one that’s fake.

Source: Forbes November 24, 2016 18:44 UTC