'Misinformer of the Year' award goes to Mark Zuckerberg

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Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck. 

Those are some of the big media figures Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is joining with this year's dubious distinction of "Misinformer of the Year."

That's the title given to the social media mastermind from Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group that tracks conservative news outlets. After a wild 2016 election, the group started paying closer attention to media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Google, YouTube, and others. 

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Traditionally the group roasts a media personality working either behind the scenes or as the face of blatantly biased information. But this year, in the wake of so much fake news that spread almost effortlessly through social networks, the group looked at how this phenomena is happening. Read more...

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