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How Silicon Valley Views The Internet's Fake News Problem

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The Facebook app logo displayed on an iPad next to a picture of the Facebook logo on an iPhone. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
The Facebook app logo displayed on an iPad next to a picture of the Facebook logo on an iPhone. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

The debate about fake news and its possible influence on the presidential election is particularly heated in Silicon Valley, the home of Facebook, Twitter and Google. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said fake news did not have an effect in the election, but he does want to fight its dissemination.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8), senior editor of social media at Recode, about how Facebook and others are addressing fake news.

This segment aired on November 22, 2016.

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