Obama personally warned Mark Zuckerberg to take the threats of fake news ‘seriously’
President Barack Obama reportedly pulled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aside and made an appeal to take the threat of fake news and political disinformation seriously, reports The Washington Post. According to the paper, Obama warned that unless Facebook and the government did more to address the threat, it would only get worse in the next presidential race. That conversation reportedly occurred just nine days after Zuckerberg dismissed the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election as “crazy,” just two months before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Zuckerberg acknowledged the problems fake news posed, but told Obama they weren’t widespread and there wasn’t an easy…
