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Mark Zuckerberg: 'Nothing Illegitimate' About Election Taking 'Additional Days, or Even Weeks'

In a recent interview with Axios on HBO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged the media to assure the public that there was nothing illegitimate about waiting days or even weeks to tabulate the results of the upcoming presidential election.

In a recent interview with Axios on HBO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that it may take days or even weeks for votes in the upcoming presidential election to be counted and verified but there was nothing illegitimate about this practice.

Zuckerberg discussed how Facebook plans to facilitate that stating: So, were going to do a bunch of different messaging around that, just to make sure that people know that thats normal.

So if one of the candidatesin any of the races claims victory before theres a consensus result, then were going to add some informational context to that post directly saying that theres no consensus result yet.

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