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Andrew Bosworth, a top corporate executive considered a confidant of Zuckerberg, said in a post in December that Facebook was “responsible for Donald Trump getting elected” in 2016 through his effective advertising campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/20/faceboo...



I'm sure they would have taken credit regardless who won. Have to keep the ad money flowing


Possibly, yeah. But given that they ran millions of dollars worth of his ads, claiming that he was "totally silenced" is a bit silly.




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