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Prepared in advance and so well start with some questions about the news in this current year. Its only been a year since the president ial election, but it seems very hard to remember a time when facebook wasnt synonymous with fake news. People who disseminated false information on social media range from those who are fblly motivated to Foreign Government propaganda agents. Whats your take on fake news and its impact on the outcome of the 2016 election . You know, i think the mike. Microphone. Microphone. I think the impact of fake news was to allow prooimarily the trp voters to discount wha...

Of the 2016 election . You know, i think the mike. Microphone. Microphone. I think the impact of fake news was to allow prooimarily the trp voters to discount what was going on in the mainstream media, no matter how bad it was for their candidate or how bad it was factually, they just it allowed them to assume that it was coming from a biased point of view and that therefore they ignored it. And, you know, that has not been typical of american campaigns in the past. So i have a slightly different view on fake news in the sense that i think we focus a lot on the fact that, you know, this news m...