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September 27, 2017  · Shared with Public
I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him.
Every day I work to bring people together and build a community for everyone. We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas.
Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like.
The facts suggest the greatest role Facebook played in the 2016 election was different from what most are saying:
- More people had a voice in this election than ever before. There were billions of interactions discussing the issues that may have never happened offline. Every topic was discussed, not just what the media covered.
- This was the first US election where the internet was a primary way candidates communicated. Every candidate had a Facebook page to communicate directly with tens of millions of followers every day.
- Campaigns spent hundreds of millions advertising online to get their messages out even further. That's 1000x more than any problematic ads we've found.
- We ran "get out the vote" efforts that helped as many as 2 million people register to vote. To put that in perspective, that's bigger than the get out the vote efforts of the Trump and Clinton campaigns put together. That's a big deal.
After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea. Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it. This is too important an issue to be dismissive. But the data we have has always shown that our broader impact -- from giving people a voice to enabling candidates to communicate directly to helping millions of people vote -- played a far bigger role in this election.
We will continue to work to build a community for all people. We will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation and subvert elections. We'll keep working to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, and to ensure our community is a platform for all ideas and force for good in democracy.
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Trumps going to prison and he knows it. But he's still trying to wish his trouble away. The NFL, tax reform, not helping Puerto Rico by waiving regulations...its all a diversion folks. Trump is trying to draw your attention away from the fact that the …
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Pete Gitlin
On her show tonight Rachel Maddow made it clear that Russian operatives repeatedly reported Ukrainian activists, calling their posts...even a post of a rainbow over the activist's city...as inappropriate content or even porn. And Facebook blocked the a…
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Bill Keeshen
Why not hire more Americans? Facebook is one of the most successful tech companies that barely contributes to the American economy. Until you do, your words are meaningless.
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Michael Kakande
Hello Mark, i am very happy for your initiative that is meant to help cub down the diseases and most especially in kids. I am an artist and a radio presenter from Uganda, real names Kakande Michael, and as part of my charity i decided to make a foundat…
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Heidi Baikie
So propaganda is just an “idea” to you as long as it’s profitable. Got it.
You have so much more work to do to unravel the BS you allow on this platform. This is just a CYA statement and you’ll continue to run your business in a way that doesn’t prot…
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Reza Hr
It's true that the Russian funded ads were just a small percentage of all the ads during the campaign, I wonder though, since Facebook does targeted ads, i be interested to know the percentage difference between how these ads were used in targeted adve…
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Jon Allen
It's not "liberals" who think Facebook provided a platform for the Russians to help Trump, it's every intelligence agency on the planet.
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Rebecca Schoenkopf
Russia paid for American ads IN RUBLES, and your team "couldn't find" them and denied they happened as recently as May. You found 470 fake accounts here as opposed to 30,000 in France. The only reason you found the 3000 Russian ads you did is you worke…
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Bobby Naqvi
Mark, your India team sucks big time. It is muzzling the voice of people who are critical of the government. Is this FB India's agenda? Shame.
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Judy Johnson
Thank you so much for sending help to Puerto Rico. You are more than a Humanitarian, you stand for all people and that is what this country needs. I have been praying someone would step in and help these poor people. Mark Cuban and Pit Bull sent their…
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