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Exploitation in online advertising to begin with. and so this is the most nefarious version of it. the truth is they were really to get to the bottom of it, even though they have the impulse to do so, they probably see that -- they'd have to show the world how exploitable the platforms are and that doesn't really serve them or their ad businesses. >> if they did want to figure it out, i guess the reason i've now started to care more and more that they do more of an investigation, now that journalists have been able to piece it together and show some of the content, show some of what, you know,...

Election? why are we only getting it from journalists who were having to piece it together themselves? facebook page by facebook page, twitter account by twitter account. these were american companies that were used as the scene of a fairly significant crime. what explains their lack of urgency to even figure this stuff out, let alone make any kind of public disclosure that would help us see what russia did? and now that google is admitting this much of it, too, is that likely to change any of those? joining us is elizabeth. she's a silicon valley correspondent for "the washington post." she b...

Election. so that was the headline at the "wall street journal." facebook cut russia out of april report on election influence. we don't know why facebook decided to keep quiet about what russia was doing on their pl platform but we did know after they put out that statement in april facebook again and again and again denied that there was any evidence they've seen that there was any russian money or any russian government activity using facebook ads to try to influence american voters during the election. facebook denied that to wire.com. they denied it to cnn.com on july the 20th. but then m...

This was russian. they're calling themselves heart of texas, but they got on facebook and said, pure evil. visual, with this unflattering picture of hillary clinton. the caption you can see at the top. hillary is no doubt pure evil. all the patriots must immediately stand up with arms in hands against washington in the event that clinton, quote, wins, end quote, the election. like and share if you agree with me. anybody who saw that hillary clinton unflattering picture, pure evil, of the phrase caption was looking at the work not of some trump supporter or of the trump campaign or even some ra...

With the photo shopped image of her with osama bin laden. this russian group on facebook started to promote an idea that must have seemed like a satisfies prospect to moscow after they pulled it off. this russian run texas facebook group switched over to this as their theme. secede, if hillary wins the election, texas should break off from the united states. a week after that reporting on the texas group, then it was "daily beast" uncovering another fake russian run outlets operating on facebook as if it was an american group. this one was called "being patriotic." it was naturally run by russ...