TWISTED: Facebook is dangerous as the content that is posted is not filtered or checked
unlike news published in the print media or shown on television channels. In the run-up to
the 2016 US presidential election, misinformation and fake news proliferated on Facebook
and brought it under severe criticism. While Mark Zuckerberg has long maintained that
Facebook is a tech company and not a media organisation, public outcry has forced
the company to institute some checks and balances and to allow for “highly subjective”
judgments about the newsworthiness of content