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Facebook Built Its Vision of Democracy on Bad Data

Facebook Built Its Vision of Democracy on Bad Data

Facebook Built Its Vision of Democracy on Bad Data

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

October 2, 20178m 48s

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Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook Wednesday to once more defend himself and his platform. Responding to a cavalierly-tweeted charge of anti-Trump bias from the President of the United States, Zuckerberg again repeated his claim that Facebook was [a platform for all ideas,” and that, contrary to unfolding public opinion, his company did much more to further democracy than to stifle it. For evidence, Zuckerberg—as is his wont—turned to the data.

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