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Movie theet fer it's not true -- >> you can if it's on fire. >> the point on twitter is some of these things are not true. >> incentive to violence is one thing -- >> twitter and facebook -- money, we know when a dollar is real, when a dollar is counterfeit. there are groups trying to have social media companies have a water seal or verify the content -- president government shouldn't be the recourse at first, it should be boards of the companies. what's clear is we've only scratched the surface. we're just at the beginning of this problem. >> our kids are going to figure it out. >> they bette...

Democracy and protecting our commitment to free and open speech. and so these companies, when they try to kind of take the position of being high and mighty, they see themselves in some interesting sorts of ways as protecting the ability of folk to say what they need to say. but we see underneath it's all of this darkness, all of this lug are ugliness that can be exploited. >> there's interesting intellectual debates to be had to be sure. these companies are american companies making a lot of money, dominating our lives, hiding behind a lot of intellectual arguments. as the congressional membe...

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 become is ares all that more important. >> the top democrat on the house intel committee adam schiff also weighed in, "it is clear twitter has significant forensic work to do to understand the depth and breadth of russian activity during the campaign. this additional analysis will require far more robust investigation into how russian actors used their platform as a part of their active measures campaign." you get the sense facebook, twitter, social...

Understanding the scope of it, not understanding what's going on, it's because facebook for a long time said, oh, no, we don't think this is a really big issue. now you have the founder of facebook saying, you know what, i was wrong about that, i should actually have taken this a lot more seriously. >> noah, russian operatives have found in twitter and facebook the perfect hiding place, it seems. they get in easy, they can disguise themselves. people aren't who they say they are on social media, that's news to no one. but it's an easy way to disrupt an american election to the extent they did....