It was a “crazy idea”, Mark Zuckerberg declared in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, that fake news on Facebook had any influence over the result. But, within 12 months, the Facebook founder had been forced to apologise amid revelations that Russia had used the world’s largest social media platform to spread falsehoods and stir up tensions as part of a targeted election interference campaign.
2016年美国总统大选尘埃落定后,Facebook创始人马克•扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)宣称,认为Facebook上的假新闻会对大选结果产生影响是个“疯狂的想法”。但在不到12个月后,扎克伯格就被迫道歉,因为有消息称,俄罗斯曾利用世界最大社交媒体平台散布假消息,挑起紧张,作为其有针对性的干涉美国大选行动的一部分。