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Conspiracy theories and hoaxes, and some end up doing awful things. i think our information environment is polluted in many ways. so how does a free society grapple with that knowing how many benefits come from the internet, how valuable free expression is free speech rights are. how do we grapple with this? lets talk about it with oliver darcy and gq correspondent julia. the company is known as being like a free speech oasis. you can post whatever you want. in reality that means a lot of hate g...

This deep anti-semitism that you swirl hill, pittsburgh. see on the social media footprint. we know the fbi is leading the >> several of the messages that he was posting was against a investigation. they are treating this and investigating this as a hate jewish refugee resettlement crime. we also know that the suspect agency. that was his point that one of was wounded after he was shot by the points he was making is that this agency is bringing people police. the authorities have not said in, je...

Saying something -- >> well come back to that point in a second. i hear a disembodied voice. it belongs to bakari sellers. go. >> first of all, trumps not transparent with all due respect. donald trumps a liar and i think we need to be extremely clear about this. the dangerous part about this -- and youre correct in the second part -- is to tie this and go back full circle with the polling, he tries to just alter reality, and he still gets 30% to 35% to 40% of the american public who stand by hi...

That is whats dangerous. but we have to be very clear in our language. i dont think -- >> let me explain. what i was saying is when he lies, its very transparent what he is trying to do, what he fears, how hes trying to change the information environment. thats what i mean. >> now that you two have made peace. >> youre right. hes an unabashed liar. there we go. i got it. >> you have no argument from me on that. >> i do want to bring michael caputo in and tie it back to the polls here because one...

Trust that because they are leaders and we are trusting them to do that. bigger picture here is that donald trump lies repeatedly as he does because he wants to disorient the american people so that they cant ascertain what the truth is. they cant tell. and if he can do that and he has done that for his base, then it is impossible to hold them accountable. if you dont know what he is doing, what he isnt, what the facts are, what facts are not, you cant hold him accountable. and so what do we hav...

Extinction between the influence campai campaign and infrastructure campaign. what most of the conversation is on capitol hill is the influence of the cap pain ampaign and usil media or facebook or making certain movement for voter box. the more challenging question and something that cyber kmapd command is working on is how you protect the infrastructure. in the past what the white house have said is they talked about the infrastructure side of this, we are taking measures and certain boundarie...

Excellent human intelligence sources in russia, to the point we could get their entire administration data base it appears. what it shows me is that the russians were carrying out a long-term information warfare operation designed at the beginning. back when they started it in 2013, they started doing their first hires of english linguists. they needed to shape the information environment for whoever they thought was going to be the opponent to hillary clinton. and, you know, the russians have b...

Response to information introduced into the system. and you see this actually happening throughout 2016 and 2017. i had a piece talking about the release the memo campaign where you saw exactly that happening where once this information was sort of put into a prepared information environment, people knew exactly how to react and what to do with it. and i think we really just need to pay more attention to the fact that this is information warfare, it is not advertising, facebook will keep talking...

Back when they started it in 2013, they started doing their first hires of enlish lin giss. they needed to shape the information environment for whoever they thought was going to be the opponent to hillary clinton. and, you know, the russians have been knowing about donald trump as far back as the first intelligence reports in 1977 when his wife, his second wife, was going to she canal slovakia. so hes been on the radar for a long time. that he would have come there for ms. universe, he would ha...

Excellent human intelligence sources in russia, to the point we could get their entire administration data base it appears. what it shows me is that the russians were carrying out a long-term information warfare operation designed at the beginning. back when they started it in 2013, they started doing their first hires of enlish lin giss. they needed to shape the information environment for whoever they thought was going to be the opponent to hillary clinton. and, you know, the russians have bee...