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Issue is. the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and, again, begs many more questions than they offered. their response was, frankly, inadequate on almost every level. and why their need to come forward in a public presentation and explain to the senate and to the american public becomes all that more important. >> the top democrat on the house intel committee adam schiff also weighed in on twitter's briefing to his committee releasing a statement that read in part it's clear that twitter has forensic work to do to understand the depth of the russian activity during the campaign. this...

Victorian covic. this is what russia does. if you're a media institution and you know moscow is going to target your audience, you have to be proactive and aware of that. as you say, you have gate keepers in most institutions. institutions that are not aware that they're going to be targeted are the most irresponsible, i would say. but i'm not sure that regulation is something that you can even entertain. this is about responsibility. >> it's a convergence of some interesting things. so we know, for example, that white nationalists have really taken advantage of social media. in fact, they've ...

Russian influence but also target housing ads, employment ads. and that to mers when you get to the point there could have been federal laws broken. but essentially a lot of the members of the congressional black caucus are fuming because they're saying russia actually exploited a lot of the racial divisions that already exist in america and used both facebook and twitter in this way to essentially make people hate each other more. so the question is whether or not facebook and twitter actually understand what's going on. robin kelly wrote this letter to facebook essentially saying, we need yo...

Officials to staffers of the senate and house intel committees yesterday. following that meeting the top democrat on the senate committee, mark warner, slammed twitter for its presentation. >> the presentation that the twitter team made to the senate intel staff today was deeply disappointing. the notion that their work was basically derivative based upon accounts that facebook had identified showed enormous lack of understanding from the twitter team of how serious this issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and, again, begs many more questions than they offered. their resp...

A little bit last hour. we had a lot on facebook. it really looks like now if you scratch the surface and look into it, twitter may have been more active for russia and their operatives and getting into the election than facebook was. >> i wonder how much influence twitter had on the electorate. just anecdotely, facebook was more of a driver of the fake news starting from the very first state we went to, wisconsin. for focus groups, it was clear the information that was being driven from facebook was what, where the misinformation was coming from. >> i think what's important to know, more rese...