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Donald Trump's victory on the United States presidency election has angered many people across the world and some even blame Facebook fake stories and hoaxes for influencing the turn out of the election.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally addressed the allegations that his social media network contributed to how Trump won in the elections. He said that the fake stories and hoaxes did not affect the election because they came from both sides.
Zuckerberg meant that both Trump and Clinton's side had fake stories which means that the whole Facebook network was not only biased to one side. He added that only a percentage of the news shared on Facebook were deliberately fake, Independent.co.uk has learned.
"The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics. Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other," said Zuckerberg.
Fake stories and hoaxes on Facebook are not something new to its audience. There is a never-ending supply of stories that people share which turn out to be fake.
People on Facebook do not even bother to search on Google whether the story they are reading is real or fake. It has been a common problem in the social network and Zuckerberg agrees that more can be done to fight the problem.
Zuckerberg said that over 99 percent of content on Facebook is verifiable but the small number of fake stories and hoaxes still remain a problem, BBC News reported. Some satirical content could also be blamed because people keep believing them to be true.
"We have already launched work enabling our community to flag hoaxes and fake news, and there is more we can do here. We have made progress, and we will continue to work on this to improve further," said Zuckerberg.
Trump's surprise victory is something to ponder upon but blaming Facebook is not going to make it any better. Zuckerberg did admit that they need to do more to fight fake stories that circulate the social network.
