Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “crazy” the criticism that fake news on its news feed to users had tilted the vote in the U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.

“Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way — I think is a pretty crazy idea. Voters make decisions based on their lived experience,” Zuckerberg said in an interview at the Techonomy 2016 conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Besides Facebook, Twitter was also marked out for its role in influencing voters to back Trump. Twitter said social media was being made a scapegoat for the election result, ignoring the roles that candidates, journalists, and voters play in the democratic process.

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