Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted on Wednesday that he was wrong to dismiss the idea that fake news shared on the giant social network affected last year’s presidential election. Zuckerberg’s statement came in response to a tweeted attack from President Donald Trump hours earlier. Trump claimed that Facebook was “always anti-Trump” and accused it of colluding with news outlets that the president has deemed to be “fake news.”“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,” Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page. This is too important an issue to be dismissive.”Shortly after the 2016 election, Zuckerberg had asserted at a tech conference that fake news made up “a very small amount of the content” on Facebook. He described as “a pretty crazy idea” the notion that fake news stories circulating on Facebook could have affected the election’s outcome.

Source: Huffington Post September 28, 2017 00:56 UTC