{"id":2376,"date":"2016-11-14T07:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/createsly\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:14:50","slug":"2376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themes.divulgetechnologies.com\/flicknclick\/demo\/2016\/11\/14\/2376\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, in Cross Hairs After Election, Is Said to Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"media-100000004765029\" class=\"media photo lede layout-large-horizontal\" data-media-action=\"modal\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-action-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Throughout the election, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s chief, has defended his company as a place where people can share all opinions.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit<\/span>Lluis Gene\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"248\" data-total-count=\"248\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Late on Tuesday night, as it became clear that Donald J. Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election, a private chat sprang up on Facebook among several vice presidents and executives of the social network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"87\" data-total-count=\"335\">What role, they asked each other, had their company played in the election\u2019s outcome?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"356\" data-total-count=\"691\">Facebook\u2019s top executives concluded that they should address the issue and assuage staff concerns at a quarterly all-hands meeting. They also called a smaller meeting with the company\u2019s policy team, according to three people who saw the private chat and are familiar with the decisions; they requested anonymity because the discussion was confidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"463\" data-total-count=\"1154\">Facebook has been in the eye of a postelection storm for the last few days, embroiled in accusations that it helped spread misinformation and fake news stories that influenced how the American electorate voted. The online conversation among Facebook\u2019s executives on Tuesday, which was one of several private message threads that began among the company\u2019s top ranks, showed that the social network was internally questioning what its responsibilities might be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"373\" data-total-count=\"1527\">Even as Facebook has outwardly defended itself as a nonpartisan information source \u2014 Mark. Zuckerberg, chairman and chief executive, said at a conference on Thursday that Facebook affecting the election was \u201ca pretty crazy idea\u201d \u2014 many company executives and employees have been asking one another if, or how, they shaped the minds, opinions and votes of Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Throughout the election, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook\u2019s chief, has defended his company as a place where people can share all opinions. 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