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Facebook's CEO, Mark Sakeberg, Isn't Going to Alienate Half the Country
In 20 11, Kate harboth was the first republican to work in facebook's Washington D.C. Office. In 20 16, a story broke about Facebook suppressing conservative content on its site. The company didn't want to be nor had no earthly idea and how to even begin to think about determining what's false or not. So they launched a fact checking programme that grew from a niche conspiracy theory into a mass movement. And so when trump won against all expectations, people wondered: did face book do with it something out of the genie bottle? It was really hard because you knew you had a lot to do but couldn't quite get your hands around it.