Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook, Claims 99 Percent Of Posts Are 'Authentic'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t believe his social network or news platform had any negative influence on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

“Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said the Facebook CEO Thursday night at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif..