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Russia, that sean spicer and others called fake news, that's blown out of the water, we're now bringing facebook into it. they're part of the investigation. >> if you believe this is going to happen again in the next round and the next round, it's only going to increase with sites like facebook and others. >> they built this gigantic machine, and it's eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that it's now through that social network they're being called to account. >> people understand that $100,000 is pretargeted and can do all kinds of fancy stuff is an enormous amount of money, if it wa...

That they haven't had to grapple with before this issue of propaganda. i think we're very much seeing this play out in realtime, as they try to make these calculations and figure out where their values are. >> a russian propaganda used facebook to organized more than a dozen pro trump rallies in florida last year. it's fascinating the degree to which. i don't think five years ago, anyone would have thought that facebook would have such a role in a u.s. election? >> yeah, i mean, some people believe the 2016 election was the facebook election. the number of people who use their news feed to get...

>> that's right. look, they built this gigantic world span ing machine, and it's eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that it's now through that social network they're being called to account. people understand that $100,000 is pretargeted and can do all kinds of fancy stuff is an enormous amount of money, if it was a radio station, if it was a television station, that was like pumping out stuff to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, with targeted messages, we would all be pretty clear there was something seriously going on. a violation of the laws that prohibit foreign in...

Lives. thank you for that, thank you for talking to us tonight. >> thank you, sir. have a good night. coming up next, the russian investigation, and major change of face, when it comes to providing possible evidence from facebook. we'll have details when we continue. ♪ ♪ integrate any part of your business, and have your systems work as one. the ibm cloud. the cloud for enterprise. yours.

>> you're minimizing. >> they're more targeted to an audience than an ad running -- >> i think that's a little trump spin to keep things down, and that's all we know of it. look, i think there's an interesting parallel in this to me, if you look back a couple years ago, when really the issue of online bullying and online sexual predators started to get more attention, maybe eight years ago or so. and facebook and the other platforms said, there's nothing we can do. we have to be hands off, all we can do is help train parents. that perspective evolved, and they knew they had to -- had a respons...