{"id":352020,"date":"2021-10-13T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-facebook-and-twitter-rigged-the-game-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T01:02:10","slug":"how-facebook-and-twitter-rigged-the-game-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-facebook-and-twitter-rigged-the-game-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Facebook and Twitter rigged the game in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#How <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter rigged the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> in 2020<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p><em>In her new book, \u201cRigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,\u201d Mollie Hemingway reveals how social-media companies like Twitter and Facebook responded to the 2016 election of Donald Trump to go from free-speech advocates to censors \u2014 including blocking The Post\u2019s reporting on Hunter Biden. Here, an exclusive excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 victory was a shock to much of the country, but Silicon Valley took it especially hard. The progressive bastion of San Francisco had turned tech companies from libertarian idealists into liberal crusaders. The industry as a whole felt complicit in Donald Trump\u2019s rise and was intent on doing everything in its power to suppress his voice and those of his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, the tech overlords were plotting how to strike back.<\/p>\n<p>In one meeting, Google founder Sergey Brin suggested that \u201cJigsaw,\u201d a project Google had developed to combat Islamic terror propaganda, could be used to shape the opinions of Trump voters. By the time Trump was inaugurated, a former Google engineer had told Breitbart reporter Allum Bokhari that activists within the company had formed a working group to brainstorm ways to use Google\u2019s resources to undermine the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/trump-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this Sept. 25, 2021, file photo, former President Donald Trump prepares to take the stage during his Save America rally in Perry, Ga.\" class=\"wp-image-19784195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/trump-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/trump-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/trump-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Silicon Valley, writes Mollie Hemingway, felt uneasy with the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ben Gray, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Another Google engineer wanted to sabotage Trump\u2019s phone, which ran on Google\u2019s Android operating system, as well as ban the Gmail accounts of senior Trump administration officials. An employee in Google\u2019s advertising department personally referred purchasers of Google ads to the Web site of Sleeping Giants, an activist group that encourages boycotts of conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> outlets.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t any better over at Facebook, where some employees literally took a week off to grieve.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the election, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/sheerafrenkel\/renegade-facebook-employees-form-task-force-to-battle-fake-n\">BuzzFeed was reporting<\/a>, \u201cFacebook employees have formed an unofficial task force to question the role their company played in promoting fake news in the lead-up to Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the US election last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group was operating in open defiance of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said the idea that Facebook had unfairly tilted the election in Trump\u2019s favor was \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-logo-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Facebook employees felt pressure following the election. \" class=\"wp-image-19784600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-logo-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-logo-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-logo-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/facebook-logo-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Facebook employees felt pressure following the election. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By December 2016, Zuckerberg had caved. Facebook adopted a new policy of trying to combat the alleged \u201cfake news\u201d that troubled Facebook\u2019s left-wing employees. The tech giant would start paying media outlets to \u201cfact-check\u201d news on the site. With media revenue steadily declining \u2014 in no small part because Facebook had radically disrupted the traditional journalistic business models \u2014 once reputable news organizations signed up to participate in the fact-checking program.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Media outlets that were supposed to be objectively covering Facebook were now on Facebook\u2019s payroll, given the power to determine all the news that was fit to print.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the tech companies wanted to admit it, much of Silicon Valley\u2019s anger over Trump\u2019s victory was about their inability to control American opinion.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two elections, the tech industry had loudly and publicly taken credit for helping Obama\u2019s two victorious campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the dreamers that built Silicon Valley had prided themselves on the potential of the Internet to become a digital libertarian oasis that offered people a way of opting out of the institutions that had historically sought to control what they thought and did. This was always a bit of a pipe dream, but when a Twitter executive famously referred to the social media platform <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2012\/mar\/22\/twitter-tony-wang-free-speech\">as the \u201cfree speech wing of the free speech party\u201d in 2012<\/a>, Americans still largely believed the Internet was a force for good.<\/p>\n<p>But Silicon Valley\u2019s Orwellian reaction to 2016 proved once and for all that the visionaries at America\u2019s tech companies were oppressors, not liberators. In 2018, a whistleblower at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/10\/17961806\/google-leaked-research-good-censor-censorship-freedom-of-speech-research-china\">Google leaked a document titled \u201cThe Good Censor,\u201d<\/a> and it summed up Google\u2019s role in mediating America\u2019s discourse this way:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/obama-twitter.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Hemingway also touches upon social media's role in helping President Obama winning two terms. \" class=\"wp-image-19784259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/obama-twitter.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/obama-twitter.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/obama-twitter.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hemingway also touches upon social media\u2019s role in helping President Obama winning two terms. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Rex Arbogast\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFree speech has become a social, economic, and political weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, Project Veritas, a journalism outlet that specializes in undercover investigations, released a video of a former \u201ccontent review agent\u201d at Twitter (CEO Jack Dorsey). The agent admitted that the platform was biased against conservatives, while Twitter employees reviewing questionable content \u201clet a lot of the left-leaning or liberal stuff go through unchecked.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/rigged-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231\" alt=\"Rigged by Mollie Hemingway book cover\" class=\"wp-image-19784164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/rigged-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/rigged-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=347 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/rigged-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/rigged-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=116 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/rigged-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><figcaption>Rigged by Mollie Hemingway book cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Veritas\u2019s investigation also featured a former software engineer at Twitter who admitted that the company \u201cshadow banned\u201d users \u2014 a term for when social-media companies employ algorithms to decrease the visibility of certain users without telling them.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous prominent conservatives had seen sudden decreases in engagement on social media and had long suspected that this was h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening. In January 2020, Twitter updated its terms of service to formally assert the right to \u201climit distribution or visibility of any Content on the service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Twitter was hardly an outlier. In December 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified under oath before Congress that the company doesn\u2019t \u201cmanually intervene\u201d in search results.<\/p>\n<p>The next month, a Google employee leaked internal discussions to Breitbart showing that the company did, in fact, interfere with search results. Google-owned YouTube, the world\u2019s second most popular search engine after Google itself, had a \u201cblacklist\u201d \u2014 Google\u2019s term \u2014 related to a number of political topics. If you searched YouTube for abortion, Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, gun control activist David Hogg, or other political topics, Google was rigging the results.<\/p>\n<p>But that was just the tip of the iceberg. \u201cWe have tons of white- and blacklists that humans manually curate,\u201d said one Google employee. \u201cHopefully this isn\u2019t surprising or particularly controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 25, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19784276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 25, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">House Energy and Commerce Committee via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another employee noted that the YouTube intervention on abortion search results happened shortly after left-wing publication Slate asked Google to comment on the prominence of pro-life videos on the platform.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Google also appears to have intentionally reduced the search engine rankings and visibility of conservative media. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/technology\/google-accused-censoring-conservative-videos-pushing-right-leaning-news-low\">A September 2020 report in RealClearPolitics<\/a> by Maxim Lott sifted through the data of the consulting firm Sistrix, which tracks data related to search engine optimization. The data clearly show that, starting in 2017, \u201cconservative news sites including Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and the Federalist have seen their Google search listings dramatically reduced.\u201d And Google was making it absurdly difficult to find specific information on conservative outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to blackball conservative websites was almost certainly intentional. In 2018, The Daily Caller obtained more leaked internal communications showing that Google workers had debated burying conservative news sites. An employee described Breitbart and The Daily Caller specifically as \u201copinion blogs\u201d that should not be elevated next to corporate media in search results, even though both websites do vital reporting and regularly break major political news, while major corporate media outlets have become hyper-partisan and routinely push fake news.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/google-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Google reportedly limited the number stories from conservative outlets that would appear in searches.\" class=\"wp-image-19784293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/google-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/google-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/google-2016.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Google reportedly limited the number stories from conservative outlets that would appear in searches.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michel Euler\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s undeniable Google is rigging results on politically sensitive topics, and that the results of this are politically disadvantageous to conservatives. The effect of this on elections appears to be far more significant than most realize. Starting in 2012, psychologist Robert Epstein, the former editor in chief of Psychology Today, conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of experiments to ascertain the degree to which biased search engine results can shape political opinion. Most people wrongly view search engine results as the product of mechanical neutrality, merely the ranking and ordering of results, and are easily influenced by them.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein, a politically liberal Harvard Ph.D., <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=z_oVEAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT68&amp;lpg=PT68&amp;dq=epstein+all+10+positions+on+the+first+page+of+%5BGoogle%5D+search+results+in+both+blue+states+and+red+states%E2%80%9D+were+biased+toward+Hillary+Clinton&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=yxpFLRiYso&amp;sig=ACfU3U0P1jMbci57x7r9u2xfWdWJhDXJlw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi6qvCSisbzAhUEVt8KHX4pDTgQ6AF6BAgCEAM\">would later report that during 2016<\/a> \u201call 10 positions on the first page of [Google] search results in both blue states and red states\u201d were biased toward Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Based on conclusions from his previous experiments, Epstein estimated that Google alone may have swayed 2.6 million Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Epstein would tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that search engine manipulation is \u201cone of the most powerful forms of influence ever discovered in the behavioral <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Epstein monitored Google results using over seven hundred volunteers in three swing states and concluded, \u201cGoogle search results were strongly biased in favor of liberals and Democrats. This was not true on Bing or Yahoo. . . . The bottom line at the moment is that these manipulations, the ones that we\u2019ve so far quantified, could easily have shifted at least six million votes in just one direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, Epstein observed what he claimed was overt manipulation by Google. \u201cWe also found what seems to be a smoking gun. That is, we found a period of days when the vote reminder on Google\u2019s homepage was being sent only to liberals \u2014 not one of our conservative field agents received a vote reminder during those days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As the 2020 election drew near, social media companies \u2014 \u2009driven by internal pressure from employees as well as external pressure from liberal activists \u2014 started targeting Trump directly.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A report found that Google was more favorable to Hillary Clinton in 2016.\" class=\"wp-image-19784323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A report found that Google was more favorable to Hillary Clinton in 2016.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alliance for Women in Media Foundation\/Getty Images for Alliance for Women in Media Foundation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For most of the rest of election year, Twitter would regularly block or otherwise censor the president\u2019s tweets. The censorship exposed egregious double standards. At a hearing before the Israeli Knesset in July, a representative of Twitter was asked why the company was censoring Trump but had done nothing about Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Khamenei, who had repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel and Jewish genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week before Trump\u2019s censored tweet about looting from the George Floyd riots, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir\/status\/1263551872872386562?lang=en\">Khamenei had tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThe only remedy until the removal of the Zionist regime is firm, armed resistance,\u201d and Twitter did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The response from Twitter to the Knesset was disingenuous, to put it mildly. Khamenei got a free pass because \u201ccomments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly not in violation of our Twitter rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, the more likely explanation is that Twitter, much like the executives at all the other tech companies, despised Trump and his politics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The elimination of the Zionist regime does not mean the massacre of the Jewish ppl. The ppl of Palestine should hold a referendum. Any political sys they vote for should govern in all of Palestine. The only remedy until the removal of the Zionist regime is firm, armed resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir\/status\/1263551872872386562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Facebook once touted its ability to shut off 80 percent of the Internet traffic to any link it deems misleading. When deciding whom to censor, Facebook relied on media \u201cfact-checkers\u201d who consider themselves the opposition party. Biased journalists were given the power to scrub their rivals from the Internet, thanks more to the legacy of their places of employment than their own work.<\/p>\n<p>This process of erroneous or slanted liberal media reports informing Facebook \u201cfact checks\u201d played out through Trump\u2019s entire presidency and reelection effort. It suppressed dozens of news stories in the public interest and helped get Biden over the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Facebook, we took our responsibility to protect the integrity of this election very seriously . . . We\u2019ve built sophisticated systems to protect against election interference,\u201d CEO Mark Zuckerberg told ABC News shortly after the election. He highlighted his censorship work, which he described as a fight against \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted with permission from \u201cRigged\u201d (Regnery Publishing) by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\">Mollie Hemingway<\/a>, out now.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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