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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects Trump bias allegations

| Updated: October 19, 2017 11:55:37


Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. - Reuters file photo Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. - Reuters file photo

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him.

“Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like. That’s what running a platform for all ideas looks like,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

The US president earlier accused the social network of "collusion" on Twitter, branding it "anti-Trump".

He made the same claim against the New York Times and the Washington Post, reports BBC.

Facebook will shortly hand over 3,000 political adverts to congressional investigators probing alleged Russian meddling in the US election.

The site believes the ads were probably purchased by Russian entities during and after the 2016 presidential contest.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google have been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on 1 November about the allegations of Russian interference.

Facebook and Google have confirmed they have received invitations to attend the committee hearing, but none of the social media giants have yet said they will be present.

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