Mr Zuckerberg, speaking at the Technonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, said the company certainly has work to do to improve the news feed, but said false stories were a small portion of the content shared.
"That it influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea," he said. People vote based on their life experiences, and anyone who thinks fake news contributed to the outcome betrays a "profound lack of empathy" for Mr Trump`s camp, he said.
Facebook has constantly studied the effect of its news feed. Mr Zuckerberg says the idea that it shields people from diverse opinions is a misconception -- a particularly difficult theory for him to quash.
"All of the research we have suggests that this hasn`t really been a problem. The biggest filter in the system is not that the content isn`t there, but just that you don`t click on it."
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