Since her defeat in the 2016 election, speculation has churned about Hillary Clinton and what she\u00a0set her mind to\u00a0after losing a second run for the U.S. presidency.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Clinton indicated that\u00a0a dream job of hers, at least in the private sector,\u00a0would be to\u00a0run a high-profile company: Facebook.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Harvard University before receiving an award on Friday, Clinton was asked a hypothetical question by moderator Maura Healey, a fellow Democrat and attorney general of Massachusetts: If Clinton could be\u00a0chief executive of any company right now, which company would she choose?<\/p>\n
\u201cFacebook,\u201d Clinton said without hesitating, as she and Healey paused to laugh with the audience.<\/p>\n
Clinton said that she\u00a0would want to be in charge of the social media giant because of the immense power it has over the world\u2019s flow of information.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest news platform in the world,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can listen to really brilliant, experienced writers like\u00a0David Ignatius<\/a>\u00a0and try to keep up with the news, but most people in our country get their news, true or not, from Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the 2016 election, Facebook\u00a0and other tech companies like Google and Twitter have been the focus of intense criticism for the role\u00a0they played in spreading misinformation and Russian state propaganda during the 2016 election, raising questions about unchecked political advertising and dummy accounts on those platforms. U.S. intelligence agencies\u00a0have concluded<\/a>\u00a0that Russia engaged in an extensive campaign to influence the presidential election that involved, in part, propaganda shared on social media.<\/p>\n