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Twitter's anti-information manipulation effort led to thousands of state-backed accounts being removed.

Russians, targeting specific audiences and the whole objective here is to undermine confidence in our system. and they're succeeding in that. i worry about our general public awareness of this and what do we do about it. because what this is leading to is a number of different realities that people have about what -- what are the facts? so this is not surprising. it's very consistent with what they've always done in the way of information manipulation. it's just they have so many more tools to use than they did in the heyday of the cold war. >> it's a force multiplier, i suppose you could say....

Register" sports is likely to support president obama. they were struck by the fact they interviewed both candidates they formerly endorsed. no problems. and president obama does a phone interview. we want to endorse you but it's off the record because there is news in there. it's interesting the register went on their own website. we are outraged that our president won't give airing on the record. then they said fine, it's on the record. once again it was between the register and obama. >> they said the endorsement was or off the record. nothing came out to hurt the campaign. i didn't know. >...