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Washington, d.c. a counter-protest is also scheduled. today president trump tweeted this, the riots in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division and we must come together as a nation. i condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. peace to all americans. nbc news cal perry joins us live from charlottesville. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. you could hear that police helicopter overhead. it has been overhead all day. you could see the outer cordon of the check point behind me, a thousand police officers in a very small part of charlottesville, ...

Charlottesville, virginia. charlottesville and parts of northern virginia will be under a state of emergency this weekend. the organizers of last august's rally unite the right will mark the day with a rally in washington, d.c. after being denied permission to march in charlottesville. a counter protest is also being planned. my colleague ali velshi sat down with the stars of black klansman, a new movie examining race in america. here is ali's conversation with john david and tofer grace. >> it seems every day we see headlines like this, and this, and this. and all these. and it was a year ago...

>> facebook says it discovers pages aimed at influencing political opinion. they removed 32 pages from facebook and instagram. one account had 300,000 followers. these foreign actors bought 11,000 dollars worth of ads. the biggest deal here is the pages also created 30 events that people may have actually attended. this has some real world real tangible side effects the same way we saw with the 2016 presidential election. >> what's the goal? causing chaos? >> the goal is exactly that. to create chaos and political division. one of the pages was promoting a counter protest to a white supremacis...

Confidence that these accounts tied to my accounts come many of them modeling the techniques that were used by the russians in the past. jillian: carly shimkus with serious xm 115 with what everyone is saying online. >> it appears to be 2016 all over again because social media companies removed 32 accounts from facebook and instagram that appeared to be promoting divisive political issues, nearly 300,000 accounts, the accounts read 150 ads over the course of the year but this may have had some real-world side effects as well because one of the pages was promoting a counter protest to a white n...

Continue to see russian operations directed at undermining american democracy. what this is all about is facebook finding this inauthentic behavior. basically, whoever set up the pages, 32 pages, aren't who they say they are. and though they are not sure facebook believes its russians, it's typical of the behavior we saw around the 2016 elections where russians set up these fake sites, got real americans to like, follow the pages, and then sent out disinformation to encourage division in america. it happened again. it worked again. nearly 290,000 users were following these fake sites. one of t...