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Tweeting about and the massive response it creates. >> and twitter given the back it lash we se sometie sometimes on. when the twitter ceo joins several other tech executives this week to testify before lawmakers. give us a sense what we can expect to play out in the hearings? >> attacks before both side. sheryl sandberg from facebook and a google executive yet to be decided attacked from both republicans and democrats. all enter ing a dangerous area from platform to publisher. hiring engineers ...

Is not the way to start the conversation. >> you got an interesting phone call last night, steve bannon, he calls you up and you have a conversation with him about tech and conservatives. what does he say to you? >> he says a lot of the same stuff you hear from the president. he a little more radical than tru trump. he claimed them evil. he said these are run by sociopaths. these people are complete narcissists. >> these are the tech executives at facebook, google. he says these are all evil peo...

Issue is too big for facebook to fix and thats the frightening part. >> senator john kennedy, ladies and gentlemen. for more i want to welcome senator amy klobuchar from minnesota who sits on the senate judiciary committee and has been a leading voice on this issue and on pressing these tech companies. senator, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> i dont know if i will be as fun as senator kennedy. ill try. >> i think you can be. ive seen you give speeches. >> he...

>> i think you can be. ive seen you give speeches. >> he and i together called for mark zuckerberg to testify before any of this blew up just because we thought all the tech executives should come before the judiciary committee and figure out whats going on with privacy and violations and then this happened and now hes coming. >> what is your top question for mark zuckerberg? what is the one answer you feel like he really needs to give, you and americans? >> how do you fix this? and this is real...

Response. we dont necessarily know what that response will be, but basically we have known this all along. we have known that they have been collecting our data. we know they have been using our data. were now just starting to see the seedy side of it all. >> facebook execs at the white house, talking about melanias cyberbullying effort, perhaps someone could get a word in there with those tech executives. thank you, both. >> mark zuckerberg can call us now if he would like us to explain. well m...

Really celebrates innovation in technology. this is where twitter really got its start. this is where i interviewed the twitter founders for the first time, where i spoke to the uber founder for the first time. there has always been a certain sense of optimism about technology. things have changed. this is the first year i have been here where people are really questioning the power and influence of technology. its this idea that with great power comes great responsibility. you have panels this ...

This is my tenth year coming to south by southwest. i started coming when companies like twitter were launching here and there was so much optimism around there. and now you have people really nervous, and panels where tech executives are being called out. theyre raising their hand and saying, do you have too much power? what are you doing? thats really something people are talking about. you had elon musk come and do a panel. and he was talking about the dangers of artificial intelligence, sayi...

2016 election that broke all the rules." larry, i want to get to what happened in those hearings, the tech executives revealing some pretty astounding findings. facebook saying 126 million users may have seen russian content. another 20 million users may have reached on instagram. and then on twitter, nearly 1.5 million tweets have been linked back to russian bot accounts so far. given the margin of victory could this have ultimately altered the outcome of the election? >> look, its possible, al...

For it. >> reporter: the new revelations after congress grilled tech executives in the attempt for russians to meddle in the election. >> do you believe any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active ace measures on your platform. >> our investigation continues. so i would have to say no. >> congress is now considering legislation that would require social media companies to disclose who is buying political ads, similar to tv and radio and newspapers. jolene kent. and n...

>> they are. chuck grassley, ranking democrat dianne feinstein and the senate intelligence committee leadership and richard burr and mark warner have run into roadblocks. last week senator burr was blunt. >> the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who were your sources and sub sources? >> former trump campaign advisor carter paige he wants to testify publicly november 1 along with tech executives before the senate intel...