Mark Zuckerberg rejects 'crazy idea' Facebook influenced US election result
This article talks about how co-founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg responds to comment made by some people accusing facebook of influencing more people to vote for Donal Trump for the US presidential election on November 8th 2016. Facebook uses an algorithmic system which means whatever people click on is noticed and stories and articles related to what people click on will be seen on their page. Zuxkerberg claims that people have the choice of what to click on as there is more than enough information for any type of argument as it is 'diversified'. He also says this is more than what traditional mass media can offer.
I dont believe facebook is completely to blame for influencing the election result although their algorithmic system could be updated or removed as people are only seeing what they want to see which is partly facebooks fault but nonetheless it is still the person that chooses to view it.
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