Facebook's decision to promote Trump's lies shows how it's programmed to protect the powerful | Julia Carrie Wong

At a time when companies are forced to pick sides, Zuckerberg's refusal is a choice in itself

It can be hard to remember from this side of a successful foreign intervention in a US presidential election, but in April 2016, Mark Zuckerberg was widely praised when he spoke out - however obliquely - against Donald Trump's then longshot presidential candidacy.

"I'm starting to see people and nations turning inward against this idea of a connected world," the Facebook chief executive said in a speech. "I hear fearful voices talking about building walls " It takes courage to choose hope over fear."