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Issue is. the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and, again, begs many more questions than they offered. their response was, frankly, inadequate on almost every level. and why their need to come forward in a public presentation and explain to the senate and to the american public becomes all that more important. >> the top democrat on the house intel committee adam schiff also weighed in on twitters briefing to his committee releasing a statement that read in part its clear that twitter...

Victorian covic. this is what russia does. if youre a media institution and you know moscow is going to target your audience, you have to be proactive and aware of that. as you say, you have gate keepers in most institutions. institutions that are not aware that theyre going to be targeted are the most irresponsible, i would say. but im not sure that regulation is something that you can even entertain. this is about responsibility. >> its a convergence of some interesting things. so we know, for...

Russian influence but also target housing ads, employment ads. and that to mers when you get to the point there could have been federal laws broken. but essentially a lot of the members of the congressional black caucus are fuming because theyre saying russia actually exploited a lot of the racial divisions that already exist in america and used both facebook and twitter in this way to essentially make people hate each other more. so the question is whether or not facebook and twitter actually u...

Officials to staffers of the senate and house intel committees yesterday. following that meeting the top democrat on the senate committee, mark warner, slammed twitter for its presentation. >> the presentation that the twitter team made to the senate intel staff today was deeply disappointing. the notion that their work was basically derivative based upon accounts that facebook had identified showed enormous lack of understanding from the twitter team of how serious this issue is, the threat it ...

A little bit last hour. we had a lot on facebook. it really looks like now if you scratch the surface and look into it, twitter may have been more active for russia and their operatives and getting into the election than facebook was. >> i wonder how much influence twitter had on the electorate. just anecdotely, facebook was more of a driver of the fake news starting from the very first state we went to, wisconsin. for focus groups, it was clear the information that was being driven from faceboo...

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Movie theet fer its not true -- >> you can if its on fire. >> the point on twitter is some of these things are not true. >> incentive to violence is one thing -- >> twitter and facebook -- money, we know when a dollar is real, when a dollar is counterfeit. there are groups trying to have social media companies have a water seal or verify the content -- president government shouldnt be the recourse at first, it should be boards of the companies. whats clear is weve only scratched the surface. wer...

Democracy and protecting our commitment to free and open speech. and so these companies, when they try to kind of take the position of being high and mighty, they see themselves in some interesting sorts of ways as protecting the ability of folk to say what they need to say. but we see underneath its all of this darkness, all of this lug are ugliness that can be exploited. >> theres interesting intellectual debates to be had to be sure. these companies are american companies making a lot of mone...

Inadequate on almost every level. and why their need to come forward in a public presentation and explain to the senate and to the american public become is ares all that more important. >> the top democrat on the house intel committee adam schiff also weighed in, "it is clear twitter has significant forensic work to do to understand the depth and breadth of russian activity during the campaign. this additional analysis will require far more robust investigation into how russian actors used thei...

Understanding the scope of it, not understanding whats going on, its because facebook for a long time said, oh, no, we dont think this is a really big issue. now you have the founder of facebook saying, you know what, i was wrong about that, i should actually have taken this a lot more seriously. >> noah, russian operatives have found in twitter and facebook the perfect hiding place, it seems. they get in easy, they can disguise themselves. people arent who they say they are on social media, tha...