After Donald Trump won the White House in 2016, members of the liberal establishment argued that social media giant Facebook played a major part in his victory by allowing misinformation to spread on its platform, resulting in the defeat of Hillary Clinton, Mr Trump’s opponent.
Over the next few years, Facebook would battle several such allegations. When ethnic violence gripped Myanmar, it was attributed to the lightning speed with which divisive rhetoric was shared on the site. Most damagingly perhaps, Cambridge Analytica, the British consulting firm, was found to have harvested user data with Facebook’s explicit consent.
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