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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		Zuckerberg's View of Speech on Facebook Is Stuck in 2004
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:08:15
	Publish Date:		2019-11-04 06:10:26
	Description:		Three days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Mark Zuckerberg was asked the question on many people’s minds: Did the explosion of fake news and caustic political rhetoric on Facebook help Trump win? Zuckerberg dismissed the idea. "The idea that fake news ... influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea," he said. The line has been reprinted so frequently many can cite it from memory. It didn't matter whether his comments were willful or accidental.
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