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Say it wasn't really that dry. this is a case -- what happened in estonia was, the russians figured out that the best way to influence politics is to tear at the fabric where the seams are. in estonia, that was a natural division between ethnic russians and ethnic estonians. there were riots in the street, somebody died, and then they layered on top of that a series of weeks of cyberattacks. they used disinformation, this is the era before social media, so they were using comment sections on news websites to push out propaganda. it has all the hallmarks of what we saw in 2016, but it was like ...

The moment effort to use the comment sections. this is before social media, but the comment sections on news websites as sort of like a fake news petri dish and that's a whole new -- a whole new problem. >> it's so interesting. "the new york times" matt apuzzo, thank you so much. we'll be checking out the new episode of "the weekly" on fx and on hulu. so joe, obviously this is not a new problem, but more sophisticated perhaps in 2016. >> more sophisticated and again we're getting warnings, you know, it seems every week from the people that are running our intel community and our military that ...

Massachusetts announced that she was exploring a presidential bid for 2020. by 6:00 p.m. that same day, there were calls on fringe websites to use her announcement as a way to divide the democratic party. here, for example, was an anonymous post on the message website 4chan. elizabeth warren is announcing her candidacy. now is the time to moving. go to the "new york times" comment sections. go to reddit, go to twitter, criticize her for being white. criticize her for being a woman. do whatever it takes to further divide the left and prevent them from unifying behind a candidate for 2020. fake ...

Positive. which i honestly wasn't expecting. i have been a writer on the internet for several years writing about social and economic justice. and my experience has been the comment sections of most of my pieces and trolls on twitter and i guess i expected more of that and more of people tell iing mee that i was playing a victim and brought it on myself. i really didn't expect people to connect to my story as much as they are. >> the book is "maid." thank you for sharing your st y story. >> thanks for having me. he's dedicated his life to honor lives lost in gun violence. now this carpenter ...

>> i mean, i think it is wild that that seems so prescient because it was really just a joke at the time, you know. trump's campaign seemed like a joke, and also just the idea that that would somehow be a strategy that anyone would think would work was also just ridiculous. >> rosalyn, i thought it was interesting that you talked to -- that your reporters talked to people that worked there. and talk a little bit about the conditions they describe. >> yeah, i mean, they very much describe sort of a factory of disinformation, much as adrian found in his really excellent piece. they talk about 12...