Facebook is totally against 'fake news' and misinformation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at North Carolina A&T State University at a town hall-style event Monday.

"There have been some accusations that say that we actually want this kind of content on our service because its more content and people click on it, but that's crap," said Zuckerberg. "No-one in our community wants fake information."

"We are also victims of this and we do not want it on our service," he said. "We don't want any of it."

The event — a stop off on Zuckerberg's 2017 tour of every state in the U.S. in a bid to connect with more Americans — was live streamed on Zuckerberg's Facebook page. His comments come less than a month after the CEO posted a 6,000 word manifesto on Facebook's role in connecting disparate communities.