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Land of the Giants: The Facebook Election

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Facebook's Role in Donald Trump's Election

Zuckerberg: The idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea. Russian-backed operatives had used Facebook to the fullest extent to stoke division in the United States leading up to the 2016 election. They made Facebook pages with names like Army of Jesus and paid for ads comparing Hillary Clinton to Satan. And they even set up real life, dueling protests using Facebook events.

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