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This is why Facebook will never fact-check Donald Trump
If it wants to stay this big and unregulated, the social media giant cannot afford to upset the rulers of countries where it operates, no matter how abhorrent their actions.
Rana ForooharContributorOligarchs are immoral business leaders who, as Russia’s Vladimir Putin defined them in the Financial Times, use their “proximity to the authorities to receive super profits”.
That makes me wonder: is there any better description of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg — a man who caters to US President Donald Trump by refusing to remove his inaccurate and inflammatory posts from the social media platform — than an American oligarch?
Financial Times
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