Trump Uses Facebook Exec Tweet To Call Media "Fake News"

Get the Full StoryPresident Trump seemed pleased with comments from Facebook ads VP Rob Goldman on Saturday, using Goldman's remarks about the Kremlin-linked chaos campaign on Facebook to call reporters covering the situation, the "Fake News Media."Goldman, reflecting on the Muller indictment of 13 individuals linked to Russian troll farm, the internet research agency, took the opportunity to call out reporters covering the developments."Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 US election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was NOT the main goal," Goldman said at the start of a two day tweetstorm, spanning Friday and Saturday."The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election," Goldman added.Trump seized on these comments, using them to continue his attempt to discredit the news media's efforts to report on a Kremlin-linked campaign to influence the 2016 US presidential election and sow discord in its aftermath."The Fake News Media never fails. Hard to ignore this fact from the Vice President of Facebook Ads, Rob Goldman!" Trump said in one tweet quote tweeting Goldman's remarks."'I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was NOT the main goal.' Rob GoldmanVice President of Facebook Ads," Trump wrote in a subsequent tweet.

Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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