RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — Even Hillary Clinton had a zinger about "covfefe."
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Hillary Clinton made a stinging joke about Trump's mysterious 'covfefe' tweet
She was making a bigger point about the role of social media in the nation's elections and political climate.
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Despite the joke, Clinton was attempting to make some more serious points about the role of social media in the nation's politics. Her loss to Trump was due in part social media platforms becoming "weaponized" and used by the Russians to spread misinformation about her, she said.
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She called on Facebook to "prevent fake news from creating a new reality." She called out Twitter, too.
"Twitter has become victimized by deliberate efforts to shape our conversations, to shift it to conspiracies, lies, whatever," she said. "It's the same problem Facebook has."
Clinton said she appreciates that these companies want their services to be open platforms with no censorship. And she said she sympathizes with the people at those companies who are trying to address these issues. But, at least for a while, as a test, she wants them to err on the side of removing reported trouble makers and suspicious news from their platforms.
"I would urge them to hurry up" and solve the problem, she said.
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