this about? this is about the success of 2016. the key to this is that social media has allowed this way of sort of messing with our democracy because people don t know what who they re talking to and what to believe. there s a lot of authentic accounts being funneled and amplified by inauthentic accounts. we have a problem not just with our democracy but with our congress who won t, you know, hold these tech companies accountable benefiting from extra accounts, inauthentic ones helps their evaluation and at the end of the day this is about ways we can provide disinformation and things that people might believe that s based on reflexive control. the race-basesed part is really important because it is it s a particular focus on the black vote and voter suppression and if we don t understand that this is about soervoter suppression negates what s happening. there s a lot of denial about
it s only one piece of what we ve seen of the russian effort. media has talked about the other efforts here. what this indictment does for first time, is it aligns the justice department and legal system with what we ve already heard from the intelligence community and what we also known from allies under the same kind of attacks. so molly, this soviet concept of reflexive control, how does that get activated? how does that actually activate or suppress target groups? the idea of reflexive control is essentially over time you can sort of train a system or train people to react to specific pressures in anticipated ways so you can kind of control the outcome of different events, whether it be applied with information or with other things. and i think you see that happening and how these groups were set up on facebook and on twitter the sort of narrative concepts we re targeting so over time you can get a quicker