A series of fake politically sponsored advertising circulated on Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to weed out fake news from his social-networking platform, which uses computer algorithms to push news to readers. Photo: Facebook A series of fake politically sponsored advertising circulated on Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to weed out fake news from his social-networking platform, which uses computer algorithms to push news to readers. Photo: Facebook
A series of fake politically sponsored advertising circulated on Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to weed out fake news from his social-networking platform, which uses computer algorithms to push news to readers. Photo: Facebook
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Zuckerberg’s dystopian vision of the Silicon Valley echo chamber

The Facebook founder’s manifesto to address fake news doesn’t get to the root of the problem: the two Americas that are tearing at each other

Peter Guy
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Updated: 8:46pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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A series of fake politically sponsored advertising circulated on Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to weed out fake news from his social-networking platform, which uses computer algorithms to push news to readers. Photo: Facebook A series of fake politically sponsored advertising circulated on Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to weed out fake news from his social-networking platform, which uses computer algorithms to push news to readers. Photo: Facebook
A series of fake politically sponsored advertising circulated on Facebook. The company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to weed out fake news from his social-networking platform, which uses computer algorithms to push news to readers. Photo: Facebook
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