In late November of 2016, President Obama personally petitioned Mark Zuckerberg to take the threat of political disinformation seriously,
The Washington Post reports. At a meeting of world
leaders in Peru, “President Barack Obama pulled the youthful tech billionaire aside and delivered what he hoped would be a wake-up call,”
WaPo writes. Just weeks earlier,
Zuckerberg had dismissed Facebook’s role in spreading “fake news” as “crazy.”
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