Investigations in the US are currently underway to determine the impact of the platform on the recent presidential election, though similar conversations are also being had about other sites such as Twitter. Zuckerberg initially denied the platform's role in spreading misinformation. Source: AP The platform came under fire after the shock election of US President Donald Trump and was singled out as the biggest contributor to the spread of unverified and untruthful information. Despite initial denials of Facebook's outsized role in the election outcome, founder Mark Zuckerberg promised the company would be working towards improving the quality of media moving through their platform. In the years since its founding, Facebook has become of the top 20 news organizations, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, which also reported in 2015 that Facebook referrals grew annually by 42 percent.