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brexit has been the great unmentionable so far in the selection. but tonight keir starmer called for closer ties with the eu. louisville just that and what can the partys social media campaigns tell us about the state of the race. good evening. welcome to newsnight, home to analysis and interviews. who would have imagined at the last election that the towering presence of brexit would hardly register as an issue half way through the next election campaign? it has not gone away as an is...

Well talk to senator amee klobuchar who is set to question the tech billionaire. But first tonight u. S. Officials say north korea is willing to discuss denuclearization. Russia is calling a Chemical Attack on syrian soil fake news. And china is locked in the opening rounds of what may become a fullblown trade war. And for real this time, the president is acting out a riff he used throughout his campaign, determining who is a friend and who is a foe. Is that friend or foe . Is that friend . Frie...

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Going to please anyone with what you think why is that. well you just the popular opinion these days which we see on twitter itself that people should these services should ban political ads because there are some bad apples out there i think thats a mistake i think the intent that jack dorsey has is very good i think hes very thoughtful about this is trying to figure it out but i think that in a way its an abrogation of responsibility similar to facebooks on the other end where theyre going to ...

To be putting out all these ads, both candidate ads and issue ads. >> and thats critical. the issue ads piece of it. thats things like black lives matter protests that were manipulated or used differently to try and incite, we think, political immigration ads. >> energy ads, you name it. under the standards right now, at issue ads of national legislative importance have to be disclosed by your station. they have to be disclosed by radio. and so were simply applying the same rules. they are now v...

But the key here is you put yourself at risk when you start giving peoples data away. people think theyre taking an innocent psychological quiz. none of them thinks that their information is going to actually be given to a political consultant. i dont care if its for a republican or democrat. they dont think that. and thats their problem. they have built a product with no locks on the doors and no alarms, and now they are finally coming forward and saying that we want to fix some things. the oth...

After the government finds out? >> i think that would be a great idea. but then you need a congress to act. and there are too many people that are afraid of doing something about this because we know the sites are popular. everyone loves putting recipes, cat videos. it is a great thing. same time theres an ugly side of this and someone once said that the systems were set up without alarms, without locks and big surprise, bad guys are coming in and manipulating people. and that is whats happening...

So you have a bill to sort of beef up security grants and best practices to give those to the states. >> and provide for auditing afterward because ten states dont even have that. the paper ballot idea. >> probably have regardless of whatever foreign add ser varies are doing. on the second question, it seems like thats a tricky area. i want to get to the third thing, intrusions and hacks. on the second activity it, seemed some of the intelligence heads said today look they are still doing that s...

Practices to give those to the states. >> and provide for auditing afterward because ten states dont even have that. the paper ballot idea. >> probably have regardless of whatever foreign add ser varies are doing. on the second question, it seems like thats a tricky area. i want to get to the third thing, intrusions and hacks. on the second activity it, seemed some of the intelligence heads said today look they are still doing that stuff, bots, social media, all that stuff. that is strange terri...

Congress has to look at. if you look political advertising, its very much regulated, candidate ads are regulated. thats largely -- thats largely not extended in the same -- with the same kind of robust legal architecture to social media sites. its one of the things that i think congress will have to take a look at. if facebook and google arent going to police what activities happen on their sites that might be sponsored by foreign governments, thats the type of thing congress might want to take ...