Obama personally warned Mark Zuckerberg over fake news on Facebook
Former President Barack Obama warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the danger of fake news on his company's platform before the 2016 election.
The Washington Post says that just two months before President Trump's inauguration, Obama pulled the billionaire aside and told him he needed to crack down on fake news because it was only going to get worse in the next election.
However, Zuckerberg disagreed, telling the former president that fake news wasn't a major issue on Facebook.
But now his tone has changed after the company revealed it had sold around 3,000 political ads to Russia-based groups during the 2016 election.
The company has given the ads to special counsel Robert Mueller and representatives for the company have been asked to appear in court about the ad sales.
However, Buzzfeed says there is a bigger problem, writing that, while Zuckerberg may have control of the broader operations of the company, the artificial intelligence the company is now using appears “to have more power to shape lives than the people who designed and maintain them."
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