{"id":39706,"date":"2017-09-29T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=39706"},"modified":"2017-09-29T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T03:21:20","slug":"zuckerberg-rejects-trumps-bias-claims-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/zuckerberg-rejects-trumps-bias-claims-against-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Rejects Trump\u2019s Bias Claims Against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

File photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he delivers the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18, at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at President Donald Trump for accusing Facebook of being \u201calways anti-Trump,\u201d saying the leading social networking site is a platform for all ideas, writes Lalit K. Jha.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The president had accused Facebook of \u201ccollusion\u201d on Twitter, branding it \u201canti-Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reacting to Trump\u2019s accusation, Facebook CEO and founder Zuckerberg said the social media platform had tried to be neutral in the 2016 U.S. elections.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg, however, said, he regretted dismissing concerns about the Facebook\u2019s role in influencing the U.S. presidential race.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day I work to bring people together and build a community for everyone. We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas,\u201d he said on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don\u2019t like. That\u2019s what running a platform for all ideas looks like,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

Days after Facebook agreed to cooperate with Congress on its investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, President Trump criticized the social network for being \u201canti-Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump tweeted: \u201cFacebook was always anti-Trump. The Networks were always anti-Trump hence, Fake News, @nytimes (apologized) & @wapo were anti-Trump. Collusion?\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook has said last week that it would provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators and make political advertising on its platform more transparent.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg defended the company\u2019s decision to cooperate with investigators. \u201cWe will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation and subvert elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his long Facebook note, Zuckerberg expressed regret for saying after the election that it was a \u201ccrazy idea\u201d that fake news disseminated on Facebook influenced the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea. Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is too important an issue to be dismissive.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Trump\u2019s victory, the Facebook CEO had brushed aside charges that Facebook had had an impact on the race, calling it a \u201cpretty crazy idea\u201d and saying that voters \u201cmake decisions based on their lived experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that Facebook\u2019s biggest role in the U.S. election was as a platform for candidates and citizens to communicated directly with one another regarding issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were billions of interactions discussing the issues that may have never happened offline. Every topic was discussed, not just what the media covered,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n

He said the November election was the first U.S. polls where the internet was a primary way candidates communicated to the electorate.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery candidate had a Facebook page to communicate directly with tens of millions of followers every day.<\/p>\n

Campaigns spent hundreds of millions advertising online to get their messages out even further. That\u2019s 1000x more than any problematic ads we\u2019ve found,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the \u2018get out the vote\u2019 efforts by Facebook helped as many as two million people register to vote.<\/p>\n

This initiative was bigger than the \u2018get out the vote\u2019 efforts of the Trump and Clinton campaigns put together.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a big deal,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to work to build a community for all people. We will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation and subvert elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he delivers the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18, at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at President Donald Trump for accusing Facebook of being \u201calways anti-Trump,\u201d saying the leading social networking site is…<\/p>\n

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