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First, i want to know if i'm pronouncing that right and how that compares to general disinformation, renee. >> so we were trying to describe this dynamic. my team has stanford was looking at the election kind of as outside researchers while those groups were forming, while that activity was happening. and i felt increasingly that misinformation was an absolutely inadequate word. it implies a falsifybility, and that's not the kind of content we were seeing. some of it was. allegations that the election were fraudulent, for example, very much falsifiable and the platform was trying to label, try...

Appetite to contend with it ? >> it's hard because we see the accounts of people struggling to come up with solutions. at least on the part of the researchers, the data scientists, and i would say many of the security team experts that work within facebook, there seem to have been an abundant appetite. i remember reading in one of the notes, somebody saying, you know, i've been up every night this week, i worked the last three weekends because this is keeping me awake at night and i want to figure it out. i can't say that same appetite , that same drive to solve the problem was seen among the ...

By a facebook researcher studying the platform's role in polarizing its users through disinformation. tonight we're learning just how widespread disinformation travels on facebook. new reporting from "the new york times" reveals a facebook data scientist warned colleagues' lies about the 2020 election results. the "times" writes in the days following the election, quote, as much as one out of every 500 views on facebook in the united states or 10% of all views of political material was of content declaring the vote fraudulent, the researcher wrote. those are the same lies touted by donald trum...

Disinformation, renee. >> so we were trying to describe this dynamic. my team has stanford was looking at the election kind of as outside researchers while those groups were forming, while that activity was happening. and i felt increasingly that misinformation was an absolutely inadequate word. it implies a falsifybility, and that's not the kind of content we were seeing. some of it was. allegations that the election were fraudulent, for example, very much falsifiable and the platform was trying to label, try to contend with that, but at the same time one of the real dynamics facing us is tha...

Scientist warned colleagues' lies about the 2020 election results. the "times" writes in the days following the election, quote, as much as one out of every 500 views on facebook in the united states or 10% of all views of political material was of content declaring the vote fraudulent, the researcher wrote. those are the same lies touted by donald trump that led to the insurrection at the capitol , that lies much of the republican base still believes. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack has subpoenaed 19 people to get to the bottom of the truth and hold those responsible ...