But first, to our lead. Russian bots were caught to be targeting certain hashtags, including gun control now, gun reform now, and parkland shooting. It is just one way to widen the divide among u. S. Electorate on how to handle gun control, making compromise even more difficult. This has happened with past issues like the nfl anthem debate and the 2016 president ial election. This ultimately led to Robert Muellers indictment of 13 russians for allegedly meddling in the u. S. Elections. Twitter and facebook are facing renewed pressure to do more to expose these bots and fake accounts. Are the tech giants doing enough . We spoke to Bloomberg Technologys selina wang and tara maller, senior policy advisor for the counter extremism project from washington. Tara not only did you see that russian bots come out in full force after the horrific and tragic events in florida, but you also saw the Robert Mueller indictment, citing facebook thirtysomething times, twitter, and youtube all mentioned.
Also indicted were three russian entities and separately an indictment followed an american who was allegedly involved in related credit card crime. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefing reporters this afternoon laid out a case called the Internet Research agency employed hundreds of people to the budget to the tune of millions of dollars in a longrunning effort to influence u. S. Politics. Ultimately, in the 2016 president ial election to benefit now President Donald Trump heres how Rod Rosenstein described the elaborate effort by the Internet Research agency. The defendants allegedly use that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks, such as facebook, instagram and twitter. Making it appear those accounts were controlled by persons located in the United States they used stolen or fictitious identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents now the, bill, what im told here is that ultimately the special counsels offi
About fbi impartiality dating back to the obama administration. It says Text Messages between former Bureau Officials in 2015 reference a directive from president obama to know everything we are doing in regards to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Texts indicated advanced knowledge secretary clinton even award prosecution before being interviewed by the fbi. Salt lake city is the first between announced it would pursue the winter olympics. After spending four months ensuring utah could host the games again without using money. Global news 24 hours a day andred by 2700 journalists analysts in 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live in new york, im julia chesley. Joe im joe weisenthal. Julia another day of choppy trading. The dow up 200 points. 85 . Ar yield around the question is, what did you miss . Announce aers bipartisan deal to fund the government for two years. The senate still has to vote on the deal. Investors are trying to make sense of the violen
Ban rapid fire devices like those used in last years massacre in las vegas. A band could start a legal battle with gunmakers. Paul manafort and rick gates were indicted for a second time. The new charges include failing to report incomes, to the tax authorities and bank fraud. It could put additional pressure on them to cooperate. The late reverend billy graham will be brought to the u. S. Capitol where he will line honor in the rotunda until thursday, march 1. Graham died yesterday at the age of 99. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am Alisa Parenti and this is bloomberg. Emily i am emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up earnings season , continues. We will break down the results at Hp Enterprise at hp inc. Another spacex rocket blasts into outer space. How this launch brings elon musks vision of if after internet one step closer to reality. We lay out the game plan and the upgrades on tap for
Later, fake news is the biggest threat to tech right now. Kara swisher will join us to tell us how bad it will get. One group of stocks is in overdrive, that would be autos toyota 4 , ford up 6 , gm up 9 . Fca up 33 the question is simple do you fade or trade i would say fade. Im sure ill get pushback from my point of view, Ford Motor Company went from 10 1 2 to 11 1 2 without question over the last four, 1 2 4 1 2 years. Gm, a little different i think both stocks need to prove themselves in the case of gm its over 40 in the case of ford, 12 1 2. I would rather wait for the break to try to buy it the pushback is, gm continues to execute theyre growing their gross margin the stock is getting cheaper and cheaper. This is more about a sector that the jury was absolutely out on now that were in hard times, just because we hear, when in fact these guys have been profitable, you take this run at gm, in fact it makes sense to me the stock is rallying when news is bad because it wasnt rallying