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Presidential election, twitter executives would not provide lawmakers with the names of any of these accounts they now say were linked to russia, 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 scope of nefarious bot activity on its social network. they're 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...

How much of what we're reading is real and how much is bot generated right now? how much of twitter's traffic is bottish? >> twitter doesn't actually say, and i think part of it is twitter is in a tough spot. if they come forward and say this many -- this percentage of all twitter accounts are not real, it would cause their stock to plummet. you would not have the user base that everybody thinks. but in terms of that, i think probably 20% to 30% is my opinion, my estimate of it, are really just manufactured, false accounts, propaganda. when we talk about bot activity, i've come through the rus...