Trump accused Facebook of conspiracy with the liberal American media against him

US President Donald Trump publicly accused the Facebook social network of that she was always on his side. The resonant statement was made a few days after the founder of the social network Mark Zuckerberg promised to help American officials with the investigation of alleged Russian intervention in the election of the US president in 2016.

"Facebook has always been against Trump. The networks have always been against Trump. Fake news (Fake News), The New York Times (apologized) and The Washington Post were against Trump." The head of the White House wrote on his Twitter page.

At the same time, Trump emphasized that in comparison with all the above people were for him. “None of the presidents in the history of the United States fulfilled what we managed to do in the first nine months. The economy is on the rise,” he emphasized.

Against this background, The Times draws attention to the fact that the Russian authorities do not exclude the possibility of blocking Facebook in the Russian Federation on the eve of the presidential elections in the spring of 2018.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that if Facebook does not work for cooperation, then the social network will be blocked in Russia next year, when Putin, as expected, will once again run for the presidency, the material quoted by Inopressa .

Last week, Trump called publications about the advertising announcements paid by the Kremlin in Facebook in order to influence the American elections with the next information stuffing and fake. He also informed his compatriots with the help of his favorite means of communication - Twitter. "Hoax is continuing about Russia, now advertising on Facebook. And what about the completely biased and dishonest lighting in the media in favor of Hillary?" - wrote the US president.

In another tweet, he developed this idea: "The greatest influence on our elections was exerted by the fact that Fake News Media" shouted "for the dishonest Hillary Clinton. Although she was a bad candidate!"

On the same day, publications on political advertising on Facebook were commented in the Kremlin. “We don’t know who and how it places advertising on Facebook, and never did it, and the Russian side has never been involved in this,” said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation. Previously, he had to comment on the publications on September 7, he called not to associate Moscow "with these stories."

At the beginning of the month, Facebook stated that the accounts related to Russia for two years bought political advertising, including before the US presidential election in November 2016. According to the company, from June 2015 to May 2017, 470 such accounts spent about 100 thousand dollars on three thousand advertising messages that could affect the outcome of the vote.

The American media associated the order for advertising with the work of the "troll factory" , which is overseeated by the St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, better known as Putin's personal cook.

Facebook provided data from the special prosecutor’s apparatus Robert Muller. On September 21, the founder of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg, who began work after maternity leave, said that his company is actively cooperating with American officials and helps them investigate the possible interference of the Russian authorities in the US president by buying political advertising on the social network.