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Anna scheckter has been covering this and joins me tonight. facebook made this announcement today, what did we learn? >> we learned that the exact same tactics have been used. it looks like the russians are behind it. although facebook can't say. they haven't found the russian ip addresses. there is a rally planned for august 12th and engaged real people to show up on august 12th. >> there is a group called black elevation, a group called confront and resist fascism. this is all the same kind of, what is uncanny about this is

It looks like the russians are behind it. although facebook can't say. they haven't found the russian ip addresses. there is a rally planned for august 12th and engaged real people to show up on august 12th. >> there is a group called black elevation, a group called confront and resist fascism. this is all the same kind of, what is uncanny about this is these are not actually the people they say they are. trying to foment conflict. >> that is right. but still getting people on board. and they had almost 300,000 followers. >> that is a big facebook page -- oh, across the pages. >> across the pa...

As for who is behind it, facebook can't say for sure that it the russian, but it has all the hallmarks of the activities the russians were doing around the presidential election in 2016. this time the pages doesn't lead back to russian ip addresses. they used third party services to boost their posts and encourage people to follow the pages. but again, it looks an awful lot like russian activity. >> and what are u.s. officials saying about the russian involvement in this case? >> reporter: the sect of homeland security happened to be speaking at cybersecurity conference today in new york. she ...

Now they are still finding accounts that they need to shut down? even now. does that make sense to you? >> it does make sense because the russians aren't going to stop and they are not going to be as overt as they were in 2016. they are not going to use the same ip addresses to out of st. petersburg. we have seen continuing activity since the last election. it never stopped. i think we should view what facebook disclosed in combination with what microsoft disclosed within the week. that is both of these same vectors that appear in these two mueller indictments, the social media campaign and ha...

Major attack is more likely to reach us online in an on an airplane. we are in a crisis mode. the cat 5 hurricane has been forecast. and now we must prepare. >> reporter: facebook says the current pages all shut down have the hallmarks of the activities the russians did around the presidential election, though there are some differences, this time the pages didn't lead back to russian ip addresses and they used third party services to buy ads to boost their posts and encourage people to follow the pages. we did find the leader of one of a real protest group apparently duped by the fake sites, ...