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>> the facebook paid political advertising for the russians was relatively small. but the total volume of fake accounts and the number of americans that it touched was over a 120 million. >> facebook was also inundated with fake news from other sources. in the home stretch of the 2016 election u.s. facebook users engaged more with fake news stories about the race than all the top stories from actual news outlets like "the washington post" or "the new york times." critics said if you got your ele...

Lives. with 2.2 billion users worldwide. >> facebook has become bigger and more powerful than i think anyone expected. the goal with the whole world on facebook and we all live in facebook. >> and the facebook we all live in has never seen a year like 2018. >> facebook took a major hit on wall street today losing over 40 billion dollars in market value after the revelations that cambridge analytica, a company tied to the trump campaign allegedly collected data from tens of millions of facebook p...

Attempt to manipulate. >> which is what happened. >> which is what happened, yeah. >> nbc news interviewed the former facebook security chief and current msnbc analyst about how the russians infiltrated facebook to exploit fault lines in american society, create chaos and alienate voters. >> they will create a persona that pretends to be a black lives matter activist and then a competing persona that is pro-cop, and theyll both be in the same city, and theyll ramp up the rhetoric and create meme...

Advertise big the russians was relatively small but the total volume of fake accounts and the number of americans that it touched was over a 120 million >> facebook was also inundated with fake news from other sources. in the home stretch of the 2016 election u.s. facebook users engaged more with fake news stories about the race than all the top stories from actual news outlets like the washington post or the the "new york times." critics said if you got your election news from facebook you prob...

The diner staffed up cause they all needed lunch. teachers... doctors... jobs grew a bunch. what started with one job spread all around. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. energy lives here. facebooks key role in many americans daily lives made it a target for russias operation to shape americans minds in 2016. and by 2017 it was clear that facebook was not just a target it was also, even if unwittingly an ad partner. >> today we got actual data from people in a positio...

>> which is what happened. >> which is what happened, yeah. >> nbc news interviewed the former facebook security chief and current msnbc analyst about how the russians infiltrated facebook to exploit fault lines in american society, create chaos and alienate voters. >> they will create a persona that pretends to be a black lives matter activist and then a pro cop both in the same city and ramp up rhetoric and create memes and messages >> the whole point is you can create discord by creating fake...

The russian troll factory walked through facebooks front door. >> facebook is the best vehicle for propaganda that ever existed. >> leading to multiple crises over issues of politics and privacy. >> i think it is really important for americans to foe what this company has been doing with their data. >> facebook is not a social media network. facebook is a data mining company. >> if you messaged anybody this week would you share with us the names? >> senator, no i would probably not choose do tha...

One of cambridges former employees blowing the whistle in march 2016. >> i think it is really important for americans to know what this company has been doing with data and really important i think to find out was this data used to help elect donald trump. >> although there is no evidence that the facebook data did help elect president trump. his leaks made headlines around the world and exposed facebook to renewed criticism. >> they have not put in the kind of infrastructure necessary to actual...

>> so powerful she made italians paint cadillacs pink. in terms of cultural resonance, her being called an icon, thats not hype. what does she mean to us? >> she had a hit record in every decade of her pop career. so she had longevity going for her. music is one of the best things we do in america. i mean we invented ragtime and jazz and blues and rock and rap. when you think of the great voices america has ever put out, shes at the top of the list. thats saying something. the thing that we do b...

>> i didnt know you were going to add to it. >> so guys like brennan coming out as an example for millions of americans to look at and being such a partisan frankly hack, questioning the presidents intelligence, talking about things that have nothing to do with intelligence actually, coming on television and just basically being a partisan, thats what people see the intelligence community and it allows the attacks on the intelligence community because americans go, wait a minute. this guy was in...