I didn’t know about all the involvement of the same players in Brexit, the same players in our election.” She had been “somewhat taken aback” by the Brexit result, she said, but “I didn’t, at that time, see the direct connection. She also drew attention to the connections between Brexit and the Trump campaign that she said she had not been aware of at the time. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesĪsked if she thought there was any connection between the closed-door meeting Zuckerberg had with Donald Trump at the White House and the subsequent decision by Facebook to change its policy around factchecking “false, deceptive or deliberately misleading content” by politicians, she said she couldn’t “draw any conclusions about closed-door meetings, not only with Trump but with Tucker Carlson and with Breitbart and with many others that have been going on at Facebook quarters”.īut she went on to say: “If I were of a conspiratorial mindset, I might suggest that there seems to be some connection.”Ĭlinton said she believed we were seeing “a war on truth” in which the “manipulation of information” served to further the interests of a set of “incredibly wealthy people who believe they can do whatever they want to do”. “When Facebook is the principal news source for more than half of the American people, and the only source of news that most of them pay any attention to, and if it announces that it has no responsibility for the airing of false ads … how are you supposed to get accurate information about anything, let alone candidates running for office?” Nonetheless her harshest remarks were reserved for Facebook. She added: “And we are getting warning signals all the time about what is happening right now and how it is likely to affect our next election.”Ĭambridge Analytica used illegally harvested Facebook profiles to target voters in the US election but Clinton said this was just the “tip of the iceberg” in terms of the challenges facing democracy. In 2016, she said fake news on Facebook that Pope Francis had endorsed her opponent, Donald Trump, “really did have an impact” and predicted “it’s only going to be more powerful going forward because it is more well tested. She said it was inevitable that false information on Facebook would have an impact on elections “because propaganda works”. Her intervention comes amid speculation she may mount a third bid for the presidency.
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