Facebook CEO Congratulated Trump in a Secret Call After the 2016 Election

[marble falls]

Facebook CEO Congratulated Trump in a Secret Call After the 2016 Election — And the Company Privately 'Celebrated' His Campaign
The campaign spent millions of advertising dollars on the platform.
By Chris Sosa / AlterNet
July 19, 2018, 11:30 AM GMT

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/facebook-ceo-congratulated-trump-secret-call-after-2016-election-and-company

As the fallout from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial remarks defending Holocaust deniers continues, BuzzFeed News reports that the billionaire secretly called President Donald Trump after his election.

According to BuzzFeed, Zuckerberg “congratulated the Trump team on its victory and successful campaign, which spent millions of dollars on advertising with Facebook.”

BuzzFeed says it “obtained company presentations and memos that show the social media giant viewed Trump’s campaign as an ‘innovator’ of a fast-moving, test-oriented approach to marketing on Facebook.”

Facebook disseminated Russian propaganda during the 2016 election through its platform, which did not successfully identify and reject the content from our foreign foe.

By Facebok's own estimates, 126 million people saw Russia-linked content during the 2016 election cycle.

Neither Facebook or the White House would offer comment to BuzzFeed on the report.


Chris Sosa is the Senior Editor at AlterNet. His work also appears in Mic, Salon, Care2, Huffington Post and other publications. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisSosa.

[GemDigger]

1. That would make sense considering that his FB personnel

helped in Trumps digital campaign.

[DoctorJoJo]

2. And That's Why I Say, "Fuck Suckerberg and the Facebook He Rode In On!"

[Squinch]

3. And people still say they can't live without Facebook.

[kimbutgar]

4. This is way I rarely look at Facebook anymore

I think Suckerberg is a repuke in sheeps clothing and he was rooting for twitler all along.

It’s been almost 2 months and I find I don’t miss it.

[marble falls]

5. I just never got it. Got an account. Not friended, no friends. No pictures ...

fake name, no updated info, all fake.

[Cha]

6. I wonder how Fuckerberg feels

about his sneaky little congratulatory call now?

Or does he want to be ruled by trump on a putin string?

[suprcali]

7. facecrook

zuckerberg is all about the profits! They don't even have the courtesy to protect your data as they make millions off of you. But they will protect fake news and conspiracy promoters.

Delete.

[rockfordfile]

8. More Americans see it as a un-American company.