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>> what you call bots. so they gave them social media accounts. they even had them surf the web to draw in cookies so when they visited the fake websites it looked like you or me was visiting these things and they go to advertisers, hundreds of thousands of people have looked at your ad and now pay up based on this contract we have. >> complete fraud. >> yeah, but it was a peaceful internet, i have to say. >> here's the thing, that's one example of a very acute version. part of this, no one on the internet knows how many people are viewing videos, all of the numbers facebook used for years to ...

>> right. so it's not just so that -- so, you know, a bunch of advertisers sued facebook this year because it's been misreporting numbers for years now and it's admitted that. >> flat out? >> yeah, just said we said there were more views on this than there were, there were fewer than there were. the thing that gets to me is even when the numbers are accurate, we don't have a good sense of what they mean. one example is, we now know that a bunch of russian trolls stole photographs from other people's accounts on the internet and created these fake american facebook accounts to, you know, promot...

Actually looking at what when. >> it's not just that -- so, you know, a bunch of advertisers sued facebook this year because it's been misreporting numbers for years now and it's admitted that. >> flat out? >> yeah, just said we said there were more views on this than there were, fewer than there were. the thing that gets to me is even when the numbers are accurate we don't have a good sense of what they mean. one example is, we now know that a bunch of russian trolls stole photographs from other people's accounts on the internet and created these fake american facebook accounts to, you know, ...

So, you know, a bunch of advertisers sued facebook this year because it's been misreporting numbers for years now and it's admitted that. >> flat out? >> yeah, just said we said there were more views on this than there were, there were fewer than there were. the thing that gets to me is even when the numbers are accurate, we don't have a good sense of what they mean. one example is, we now know that a bunch of russian trolls stole photographs from other people's accounts on the internet and created these fake american facebook accounts to, you know, promote all kinds of weird political ideas. ...

>> not humans they hired for $10 an hour, but computer programs. >> what you call bots. so they gave them social media accounts. they even had them surf the web to draw in cookies so when they visited the fake websites it looked like you or me was visiting these things and they go to advertisers, hundreds of thousands of people have looked at your ad and now pay up based on this contract we have. >> complete fraud. >> yeah, but it was a peaceful internet, i have to say. >> here's the thing, that's one example of a very acute version. part of this, no one on the internet knows how many people a...