Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181217:15:30:00
Influence went. did the companies give you any explanation when they weren't supplying what would seem to be fairly simple information? >> well, the reason i think they didn't supply it was probably user privacy. if you're sharing comment data, you would have to anonmize it. that said, i think they responded to the senate's request for information, not to mine. the senate was who provided the researchers with the data set. so my understanding is the senate reached out and said can you provide us with information about influence operations on your platform, starting around 2015, some of the com...