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

Re:Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake n... by thesmallestcat on Sunday September 24, 2017 @08:46PM (#15327320)

"Correct the record" should go down in infamy but I'm afraid it will instead become the norm. Where you simply cannot hold a meaningful political conversation over public channels in the lead-up to a presidential election.

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Re:Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake n... by panarky on Sunday September 24, 2017 @11:59PM (#15327981)

> I've heard the number $100,000 thrown around ...

The truth is that we don't know the total spend.

FTFA:

Congressional investigators say the disclosure only scratches the surface. One called Facebook’s discoveries thus far "the tip of the iceberg."

If the $100k really is the "tip of the iceberg", and 90% of icebergs are under water, it could be $1M paid ads for Facebook.

And that doesn't count the well documented fake news campaign for organic social sharing, which could easily be a multiple of this in spend and impact.

Since the election was decided by less than 100,000 votes, it seems plausible that this could have flipped it.

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Re:Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake n... by thesmallestcat on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:17AM (#15328040)

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

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