Last Wednesday (27), the current president of the United States, through his personal account on Twitter, said that Facebook has always been "anti-Trump", addressing the CEO of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg.
"Facebook has always been anti-Trump. The networks have always been anti-Trump, which explains the fake news, The New York Times (apologies) and the Washington Post have been anti-Trump. Conspiracy? But people have been pro-Trump! Virtually , no president has achieved what we achieved in the first 9 months and the economy is roaring," Trump said on Twitter.
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"I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning saying that Facebook has always been against him. Every day I work to bring people together and build a community for everyone. We want to give everyone a voice and create a platform for everyone." ideas. Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we help Trump. Both sides are sad about ideas and content they don't like. That's what it means to run a platform for all ideas," Zuckernerg said.
"The facts suggest that the big role Facebook played in the 2016 election was different from what most are saying:
- More people had a voice in this election than ever before. There were billions of interactions discussing the issues, something that might never happen in real life. All topics were discussed, not just what the media covered.
- This was the first US election where the internet was the candidates' primary mode of communication. All candidates had a Facebook page to communicate directly with tens of millions of followers every day.
- Campaigns have spent hundreds of millions on online ads to take their messages even further. That's 1000x more than any problematic ad we've encountered.
- We ran "go vote" efforts that helped 2 million people register to vote. To put that in perspective, this is bigger than any effort put in by the Trump and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns combined. This is something great."
Mark Zuckerberg, at the end of the text, also says that Facebook will continue to be what it is, that is, a platform for all ideas, a force for good in democracy.
"After the election, I made a comment that the idea of disinformation on Facebook changing the election was crazy. Calling it 'crazy' was contemptuous and I regret it. This issue is too important to be dismissive. But the information we always showed is that our broader impact — from giving people a voice to enabling candidates to communicate directly to helping millions of people vote — played an even bigger role in this election. We will continue to work to build a community for all. people. We will do our part to defend nations that try to spread disinformation and subvert elections. We will continue to work to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, and also that our community is a platform for all ideas and a force for good in democracy."
