Zuckerberg Denies “Fake News” on Facebook

Fake election news got more Facebook hits than the top stories from major news outlets during the final three months of the presidential race, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday.

But some were launched stateside, and one such purveyor is speaking out following the election.

Facebook was accused of supposedly having an huge influence over Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, because of “fake stories” posted on users feed.

Horner also wrote a story this year about the Amish committing their vote to Donald Trump, which was tweeted by Trump’s son Eric and then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (both tweets have since been deleted).

Paul Horner makes a living off publishing fake news articles intentionally created to mislead audiences, especially on Facebook where viral hoaxes are particularly combustable.

When asked why he kept doing it if he realized it was helping Trump and went against his own political beliefs, Horner said he didn’t think it was possible for Trump to get elected.

“It’s real scary”, he told The Washington Post in an article published Thursday.

He said later in the interview that he “didn’t know” if Trump was elected because of him.

In fact, Horner has a track record of viral news hoaxes, having twice convinced the Internet that he’s British graffiti artist Banksy; as well as convinced netiznes of the very viral, very fake news of a Yelp vs. But after several disgruntled ex-employees accused the news team of censoring right-wing stories, Facebook fired them and set up an algorithm to take their places.

Hans believes that Facebook has the means to remove more fake stories from news feeds, citing its success in restricting nudity and images of beheadings at the hands of terrorists.

Among other things, Horner boasts his social media-based network of fake news sites helped put Trump in the White House. Why? But Facebook and Google have each announced new plans to prevent fake stories from spreading by restricting advertising with websites that spread fake content. Their latest efforts were reviewing the company’s move to address reports of fake news, or if Facebook “effectively used” filtering features to scan content from offensive and unwanted information. What’s worse, they share it with gullible souls on Facebook, Google and other social media, badly blurring the picture of what’s true and what’s not. “They just keep passing stuff around”.

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: The President is weighing in on a story we’ve been following this week – fake news that popped up on social media during the election season and may have influenced some voters.