Mark Zuckerberg Has Admitted That Facebook Has a Problem With Fake News

And he vowed to battle social misinformation

Ten days after the U.S. presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his company has a problem with proliferating fake stories across the internet.

In a Facebook post late on Friday night, the Facebook CEO admitted that fighting fake news on the platform is a problem that’s complex “both technically and philosophically”—a stark change in tone after spending the past week defending the platform against accusations that faux reports helped the Republican president-elect Donald Trump win the White House.

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