Facebook discreetly removed pages that gloated of its ability to sway elections

That’s a “pretty crazy idea” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg when addressing the idea that the platform could influence elections at a 2016 Techonomy Media conference just two days after Donald Trump’s victory. But if the idea that Facebook–who has been under fire recently for it’s propensity for fake news–could sway election outcomes was ‘crazy,” why did the social media titan devote a page to “success stories” with Government and Politics given it’s own category and then quietly remove it? -- More...

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