Week 9: Story 17- 'Mark Zuckerberg rejects 'crazy idea' Facebook influenced US election result'

'Mark Zuckerberg rejects 'crazy idea' Facebook influenced US election result'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/11/11/mark-zuckerberg-rejects-crazy-idea-facebook-influenced-us-electi/

This article talks about how Zuckerberg is being questioned on whether or not Facebook as influenced the US election by allowing fake news stories to be published on the social media networking website. 

• 'I think there's a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason why someone would have voted the way they did is because they saw some fake news'
• “By far the biggest filter in the system is not that the content isn’t there, that you don’t have friends that support the other candidate or are of another religion, but that you just don’t click on it. You actually tune it out when you see it,” he said.

I personally believe that it has influenced the US election as millennials are  more likely to go to social media for news so Facebook should have been regulated so that the correct information was given to the public especially during an event as big as this.