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Paid for them and whom those ads targeted. major social media platforms should sign a voluntary code of conduct that commits them to policing for false news stories and botnets. identifying them, labeling them and blocking them, where appropriate. doesn't sound like nothing we can do. this is only the stuff that we talk about in the public domain. tl there's more that can be done in the intelligence services. i want to bring in national security reporter, ken addilani. you need to stop. if you don't, you're going to continue to invite consequences for yourself, it was said to the russians. the...

What it means. what we mean is we want to provide the tools and resources to the private sector to protect their systems. so if we can anticipate or we are aware of a given threat and as you know, we have gone to great lengths this year to work with the intel community to also include otherwise classified information with respect to malware, botnets, other types of infections, we want to give that to the private sector so they can proactively defend themselves before they are, in fact, attacked. >> do you believe current law imposes any unnecessary constraints on the private sector's ability t...

Provide the tools and resources to the private ivate sector to t their systems. if we are aware or can anticipate a given threat, and we've gone to great lengths this year to work with the intel community to also include otherwise classified information with respect to malware, botnets and other instexfections. we want the private sector to actively defend themselves before they are attacked. >> do you believe that current law imposes any unnecessary constraints on the private sector's ability to deploy active defense? >> i would say that i'd be happy to work with your staff. it's rather compl...

Of skype. but now one of the most wired countries in the world, the most crippling cyber attacks the world had ever seen. the attackers created so-called botnets taking over hundreds of thousands of computers to launch the attack. >> they flooded, they flooded the inputs of servers. >> tens and hundreds of times more than the servers could handle. >> and the assault went on for weeks. eventually, estonia had to block all international web traffic to stop the onslaught. disconnecting one of the most connected countries from the rest of the world. >> no one would get any information from estonia...

The fact that a false narrative had been advanced to the american people month after know something, sarah, if it was me, i cannot imagine, it would be poundd hannity and silenced his voice. >> think about this, sean, since the russia collusion stories began, all of theeg newspapers have been saying russian disinformation campaign, botnets, the campaign against the republic, and they are trying to change the narrative, but allll and all it was a media that had the disinformation campaign against the president of the united states. and that is something to thinksi about. >> sean: by the same me...