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Idea that it didn't exist, the idea that the saudi arabian government had this worldwide support that wasn't really there. that's the number one hash tag trend on twitter in sunday in the entire world was a pro saudi hash tag in response to this thing. >> wow. >> if you were feeling it on twitter, you were just like the rest of us. we were all there. >> have they moved since the saudi government now admitted that they killed jamal khashoggi? >> i think they're sort of regrouping a little bit. the ones that are talking are a little contrite, but they're also we're about a solved. we've absolved...

Idea that the saudi arabian government had this worldwide support that wasn't really there. that's the number one hash tag trend on twitter in sunday in the entire world was a pro saudi hash tag in response to this thing. >> wow. >> if you were feeling it on twitter, you were just like the rest of us. we were all there. >> have they moved since the saudi government now admitted that they killed jamal khashoggi? >> i think they're sort of regrouping a little bit. the ones that are talking are a little contrite, but they're also we're about a solved. we've absolved ourselves here. we didn't mean...

Primaries, all -- we saw evidence of some type of unconventional activities back in the primaries, we didn't know it was russia and now it's been established as fact in the case. who would have thought at this point we would be looking at individual bot activity and so on. >> do you think ted cruz could have finished stronger if he didn't have that extra headwind coming from russia? >> sure. whenever you have over a million dollars a month which is the budget of this troll farm to beat up on other candidates, sure, he could have -- >> so you think whether trump knew it or not, which is a legal...

So then who cares, right? as the wall street journal reported, people close to twitter say the company is months behind facebook in determining the scope of both -- bot activity. on its social network. they are behind facebook? facebook is only barely admitting that russia was operating on their platform at all. anybody who was observing anything having to do with the american political election last year knows from experience an truth there were plenty of bots and identifiable fake accounts that were absolutely messing with everybody's streams of information both on facebook and twitter. face...

Nor would they describe any of the content that was spread by any of those accounts. so then who cares, right? as the wall street journal reported, people close to twitter say the company is months behind facebook in determining the -- bot activity. they are behind facebook? facebook is only barely admitting that russia was operating on their platform at all. anybody who was observing anything having to do with the american political election last year knows from experience an truth there were plenty of bots and identifiable fake accounts that were absolutely messing with everybody's streams o...