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As people debate Facebook`s role in influencing people during the US presidential elections by Russian ads and fake news on the platform, the company`s COO Sheryl Sandberg has stressed that the social media giant is not a media organisation, and therefore does not hire journalists.
Sandberg said that Facebook is run by technical workers and engineers and according to her, the company does not produce news content, therefore it can`t be a media company.
In an interview with US-based news website Axios on Thursday, she said, “At our heart, we are a tech company. We hire engineers. We don`t hire reporters. No one is a journalist.” “We don`t cover the news.she said.
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