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DOW JONES, A NEWS CORP COMPANY

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There’s a reason important media companies are headed by craggy old veterans who know how to navigate political and cultural cross currents.

That said, let’s have a moment of realism about Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, whose feet of clay have become the media narrative of the nanosecond.

The New York Times provides, over the course of 5,000 words, a handful of anecdotes and claims about what somebody said at a meeting. Now many seem convinced they have comprehensive insight into Facebook ’s special iniquity as it failed to solve the dilemma of an open platform on which Russians and others are able to post content that many find objectionable.

They don’t. The Times gives us a sliver of a window that, at best, may be accurate but is incomplete.

The Washington Post offers a piece of similar length examining a single producer and single consumer of fake news. Lo, the producer is a liberal who enjoys baiting conservatives (and making money from it) with made-up stories shared on Facebook, such as one claiming Chelsea Clinton and Michelle Obama flipped Donald Trump the finger at the White House during the national anthem.

The consumer is an elderly woman who invests no more effort in these stories than it takes to click “like” or “share.” She is a lifelong Republican, we’re told, but the Post doesn’t even tell us if she voted.

So what is the net effect? Probably nil.

A voice against the howling has been a group at Harvard’s Berkman Klein

OPINION BUSINESS WORLD

The Scapegoating of Facebook Liberals at Harvard show, with data, why liberals elsewhere are wrong about 2016.

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Nov. 20, 2018 6:50 p.m. ET

By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

PHOTO: OMAR MARQUES/ZUMA PRESS

DOW JONES, A NEWS CORP COMPANYStoxx 600357.01 0.86%▲Nikkei21812.00 0.76%▲U.S. 10 Yr-7/32 Yield3.065%▼Crude Oil51.12 1.39%▲Euro1.1365 0.24%▲This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-scapegoating-of-facebook-1542757846

There’s a

reason

important

media

companies

are headed

by craggy old

veterans who

know how to

navigate

political and

cultural cross

currents.

That said, let’s have a moment of realism about Mark Zuck erberg and Sheryl

Sandberg, whose feet of clay have become the media narr ative of the

nanosecond.

The New York Times provides, over the course of 5,000 words, a handful of

anecdotes and claims about wha t somebody said at a meeting. Now many

seem convinced they have comprehensive insight into Facebook ’s special

iniquity as it failed to solve the dilemma of an open platform on which

Russians and others are able to post content that many find objectionable .

They don’t. The Times gives us a sliver of a window that, at best, may be

accurate but is incomplete.

The Washington Post offers a piece of similar length examining a single

producer and single consumer of fake news. Lo, the producer is a liberal who

enjoys baiting conservatives (and making money from it) with made-up

stories shared on Facebook, such as one claiming Chelsea Clint on and

Michelle Obama flipped Donald Tr ump the finger at the White House during

the national anthem.

The consumer is an elderl y woman who invests no more effort in these

stories than it takes to click “like” or “share.” She is a lifelong Republican,

we’re told, but the Post doesn’t even tell us if she voted.

So what is the net effect? Probably nil.

A voice against the howling has been a gr oup at Harvard’s Berkman Klein

OPINION BUSINESS WORLD

The Scapegoating of F acebook

Liberals at Harvard show, with data, why liberals elsewhere are wrong about 2016.

|

Nov. 20, 2018

6:50 p.m. ET

By Holman

W. Jenkins, Jr.

PHOTO: OMAR MARQUES/ZUMA PRESS