At economic summit, Zuckerberg seeks more Web access
LIMA, Peru — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged world leaders meeting in Peru on Saturday to help get more people online as a way to improve global living standards while separately announcing new measures to cut down on fake news stories on the social network that some suggest could have helped sway the U.S. presidential election.
The Facebook founder took on the role of evangelist for “connectivity” as he spoke at a trade summit, lamenting that half the world has no online access and is being deprived of its economic potential as well as advances in science, education and medicine.
[...] as he was promoting the benefits of the online world in the speech, he took to his Facebook page to address one of the downsides of the Internet: the rapid dissemination of bogus news stories.