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Holy shit, this (((WaPo))) story on Obama, Zuckerberg & fake news

Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news...
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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:37 PM
Author: fragrant maroon nursing home

Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook

Updated: SEPTEMBER 24, 2017 — 9:13 PM EDT

by Adam Entous, Washington Post

Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company’s social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled the youthful tech billionaire aside and delivered what he hoped would be a wake-up call.

For months leading up to the vote, Obama and his top aides quietly agonized over how to respond to Russia’s brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign without making matters worse. Weeks after Trump’s surprise victory, some of Obama’s aides looked back with regret and wished they had done more.

Now huddled in a private room on the sidelines of a meeting of world leaders in Lima, Peru, two months before Trump’s inauguration, Obama made a personal appeal to Zuckerberg to take the threat of fake news and political disinformation seriously. Unless Facebook and the government did more to address the threat, Obama warned, it would only get worse in the next presidential race...

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/obama-tried-to-give-zuckerberg-a-wake-up-call-over-fake-news-on-facebook-20170924.html



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:38 PM
Author: fragrant maroon nursing home

Written as fact: "Russia’s brazen intervention on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3742892&forum_id=2#34288707)



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:40 PM
Author: Avocado Travel Guidebook Voyeur



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:41 PM
Author: violent personal credit line

"Zuck, you gotta curate the news much more to push Dem causes and ensure America becomes a brown third world shithole!"

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Date: September 25th, 2017 6:44 AM
Author: fragrant maroon nursing home

"You need those church shooting coders from Sudan. Good people."

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Date: September 25th, 2017 7:09 AM
Author: charismatic jet halford

cr i literally dont get what the scandal is supposed to be

can you not use facebook 2 influence ur friends politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3742892&forum_id=2#34289603)



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:44 PM
Author: Glittery internal respiration



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Date: September 27th, 2017 8:19 AM
Author: harsh turdskin



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:39 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy bronze rehab shitlib



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:43 PM
Author: Costumed Gold Jewess Field



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Date: September 24th, 2017 11:46 PM
Author: seedy house puppy

That article is like listening to a tinder date prattle on for 2 hours over drinks. At the end you learn nothing you already didn't know from her profile.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3742892&forum_id=2#34288765)



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Date: September 27th, 2017 6:43 AM
Author: fragrant maroon nursing home

UPDATE: WaPo's story was fake news. They issued a correction.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/26/embarrassment-as-washington-post-corrects-its-scoop-about-obama-facebook-and-russia.amp.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3742892&forum_id=2#34307193)



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Date: September 27th, 2017 6:53 AM
Author: cerebral bonkers new version library



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Date: September 27th, 2017 10:07 AM
Author: vivacious pearl casino chad

It's this generation's '9-11 was an inside job'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3742892&forum_id=2#34307882)



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Date: September 27th, 2017 7:07 AM
Author: curious newt heaven

Surely this correction be in BOLD, right next to democracy dying and WaPo trying to save it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3742892&forum_id=2#34307221)



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Date: September 27th, 2017 8:20 AM
Author: harsh turdskin



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