omnipresence of these companies in this technology? >> well, i think either one somebody has to start talking about it, my suggestion -- and it's simple minded -- but when you write a story, the first thing it says is the dataline, washington, d.c., albany new york, boston, massachusetts. how about if on facebook when a story comes up it says "moscow" or st. petersburg? where did it come from? >> who's the source. >> is the technology there to identify the source so people can be alerted to the fact that they're being conned? i can tell you as a person, i'm running for office in 2018, it used to be you're worried about skeletons in your closet coming out, now they can make it up. they can write a story that has no relevance to anything and by the time you can rebut it, it's already gone viral. >> senator, do you think silicon valley is at the point where they have any sense of the