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Idea that it didnt exist, the idea that the saudi arabian government had this worldwide support that wasnt really there. thats the number one hash tag trend on twitter in sunday in the entire world was a pro saudi hash tag in response to this thing. >> wow. >> if you were feeling it on twitter, you were just like the rest of us. we were all there. >> have they moved since the saudi government now admitted that they killed jamal khashoggi? >> i think theyre sort of regrouping a little bit. the on...

Idea that the saudi arabian government had this worldwide support that wasnt really there. thats the number one hash tag trend on twitter in sunday in the entire world was a pro saudi hash tag in response to this thing. >> wow. >> if you were feeling it on twitter, you were just like the rest of us. we were all there. >> have they moved since the saudi government now admitted that they killed jamal khashoggi? >> i think theyre sort of regrouping a little bit. the ones that are talking are a litt...

Primaries, all -- we saw evidence of some type of unconventional activities back in the primaries, we didnt know it was russia and now its been established as fact in the case. who would have thought at this point we would be looking at individual bot activity and so on. >> do you think ted cruz could have finished stronger if he didnt have that extra headwind coming from russia? >> sure. whenever you have over a million dollars a month which is the budget of this troll farm to beat up on other ...

So then who cares, right? as the wall street journal reported, people close to twitter say the company is months behind facebook in determining the scope of both -- bot activity. on its social network. they are behind facebook? facebook is only barely admitting that russia was operating on their platform at all. anybody who was observing anything having to do with the american political election last year knows from experience an truth there were plenty of bots and identifiable fake accounts tha...

Nor would they describe any of the content that was spread by any of those accounts. so then who cares, right? as the wall street journal reported, people close to twitter say the company is months behind facebook in determining the -- bot activity. they are behind facebook? facebook is only barely admitting that russia was operating on their platform at all. anybody who was observing anything having to do with the american political election last year knows from experience an truth there were p...

Presidential election, twitter executives would not provide lawmakers with the names of any of these accounts they now say were linked to russia, nor would they describe any of the content that was spread by any of those accounts. so then, who cares, right? as "the wall street journal" reported, people close to twitter say the company is months behind facebook in determining the scope of nefarious bot activity on its social network. theyre behind facebook? facebook is only barely admitting that ...

How much of what were reading is real and how much is bot generated right now? how much of twitters traffic is bottish? >> twitter doesnt actually say, and i think part of it is twitter is in a tough spot. if they come forward and say this many -- this percentage of all twitter accounts are not real, it would cause their stock to plummet. you would not have the user base that everybody thinks. but in terms of that, i think probably 20% to 30% is my opinion, my estimate of it, are really just man...