It was a “crazy idea”, Mark Zuckerberg declared in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, that fake news on Facebook had any influence over the result. But, within 12 months, the Facebook founder had been forced to apologise amid revelations that Russia had used the world’s largest social media platform to spread falsehoods and stir up tensions as part of a targeted election interference campaign.
2016年美國總統大選塵埃落定后,Facebook創始人馬克?扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)宣稱,認為Facebook上的假新聞會對大選結果產生影響是個“瘋狂的想法”。但在不到12個月后,扎克伯格就被迫道歉,因為有消息稱,俄羅斯曾利用世界最大社交媒體平臺散布假消息,挑起緊張,作為其有針對性的干涉美國大選行動的一部分。