How the tech world's immaturity handed Trump the election

Too little, too late, Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for nothing, Wikileaks.

In the wake of Donald Trump's shock election, there's been a reckoning over the role of social media enabling the spread of fake news and abusive behavior that disproportionately helped the GOP candidate. But it took nearly a week before that outrage reached the ears of the men responsible. 

Like children sullenly admitting they are at fault, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have taken belated action in the last few days—shutting off fake news sites' access to their ad network and banning a bunch of racist alt-right accounts respectively.  Read more...