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>> that's what they're engineered to do. the bots come in and use the tool for what it's been engineered to do. >> totally. >> there is also this loophole, "the new york times" had this story in the virginia house race, an anonymous attack ad popping up on facebook, which was, kara, a problem they were supposed to -- a loophole they were supposed to close. >> yep, right. >> which apparently has not been closed. >> not yet. and again, this is one company that wreaks havoc. and by the way, to be fair, it's impossible as the stuff continues to flood into these systems. and the question is do we -...

Nationals in connection with the 2016 presidential election. russia is far from the only country using social media to try to influence politics in the u.s. and beyond, the news that twitter yesterday suspended a network of suspected bots that bushed pro saudi arabia hash tags and talking points about jamal khashoggi, "the washington post" columnist who was killed in a consulate weeks ago. here to help me understand what's at stake here the executive director of recode and host of the recode decode podcast. benecol lines. one of the by lines about the bot story. >> they're fun ones, aren't the...

>> totally. >> there is also this loophole, "the new york times" had this story in the virginia house race, an anonymous attack ad popping up on facebook, which was, kara, a problem they were supposed to -- a loophole they were supposed to close. >> yep, right. >> which apparently has not been closed. >> not yet. and again, this is one company that wreaks havoc. and by the way, to be fair, it's impossible as the stuff continues to flood into these systems. and the question is do we -- we didn't want gatekeepers. that was the whole point of this, the open platforms. the fact that gate keepers s...

Nationals in connection with the 2016 presidential election. russia is far from the only country using social media to try to influence politics in the u.s. and beyond, the news that twitter yesterday suspended a network of suspected bots that bushed pro saudi arabia hash tags and talking points about jamal khashoggi, "the washington post" columnist who was killed in a consulate weeks ago. here to help me understand what's at stake here the executive director of recode and host of the recode decode podcast. benecol lines. one of the by lines about the bot story. >> they're fun ones, aren't the...