Zuckerberg claims Facebook hoaxes didn't influence the election. He's wrong.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't believe that Facebook, the largest social network on planet Earth and a major news platform, could have influenced the outcome of the presidential election.

"Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea," the Facebook CEO reportedly said Thursday night at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California. "Voters make decisions based on their lived experience." 

Wowza.

Facebook has come under fire this year for allowing the proliferation of misleading information in its News Feed, where a tremendous number of people receive information every day — 1.18 billion people, according to the social network's own numbers.  Read more...