Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?
by Olivia Solon in San Francisco from on (#2157W)
The company is being accused of abdicating its responsibility to clamp down on fake news stories and counter the echo chamber that defined this election
"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They are the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific."
Many Guardian readers will have seen this quote, attributed to a 1998 interview with Donald Trump in People magazine, in their Facebook news feed.
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