{"id":8469,"date":"2017-09-28T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/28\/mark-zuckerberg-i-regret-ridiculing-fears-over-facebooks-effect-on-election\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:51:06","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-i-regret-ridiculing-fears-over-facebooks-effect-on-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook&#039;s effect on election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder, who called it \u2018crazy\u2019 to suggest misinformation on site affected voters, describes change of heart as company provides ad content to CongressMark Zuckerberg said he regretted dismissing concerns about the Facebook\u2019s role in influencing the US presidential race, his latest acknowledgement that misinformation on the platform has affected elections.Shortly after Trump\u2019s surprise victory, the Facebook CEO had brushed aside charges that Facebook had had an impact on the race, calling it a \u201cpretty crazy idea\u201d and saying that voters \u201cmake decisions based on their lived experience\u201d. But in a post Wednesday directly responding to Donald Trump\u2019s tweet labeling Facebook \u201canti-Trump\u201d, Zuckerberg expressed remorse for his earlier statements rejecting concerns about the dangers of propaganda and fake news on Facebook. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/27\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-2016-election-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook&#039;s effect on election<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder, who called it \u2018crazy\u2019 to suggest misinformation on site affected voters, describes change of heart as company provides ad content to CongressMark Zuckerberg said he regretted dismissing concerns about the Facebook\u2019s role in influencing the US presidential race, his latest acknowledgement that misinformation on the platform has affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}