‘Except perhaps for Mark’: Internal emails show Facebook mulling fake news plea from Sacha Baron Cohen

It was eight days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and Facebook was facing criticism that a flood of false stories on its platform had helped elect Donald Trump. That morning, Sheryl Sandberg got a policy memo from an unlikely source: Sacha Baron Cohen. In an email titled “Thoughts for the day,” the comedian behind “Ali G” and “Borat” urged Sandberg and her colleagues to follow the example of Google, with its fact-check labels and its counter-radicalization messages for people searc...