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Doj just indicted these guys in november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they built a whole raft of fake websites. and then created a bunch of fake people who go to the websites. they moved cursors like real people, clicked on stuff like real people. >> not humans they hired for $10 an hour, but computer programs. >> what you call bots. so they gave them social media accounts. they even had them surf the web to draw in cookies so when they visited the fake websites it looked like you or me was visiting these things and they go to advertisers, hundreds of thousands of people h...

Nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? max read joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that's funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. >> pays my salary. >> pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to crea...

Organization led by the russian government. the president's statement when he said he believed vladimir putin that they weren't involved, that was wrong. this was a conspiracy that was funded with millions of dollars that involved hundreds of individuals, that involved front companies, that involved counter -- i see traditional russian counterintelligence technique, including using fraudulent identities and those types of techniques, conspiracy in the russian government leading back years before the 2016 election. >> they set up these russian operatives came to the u.s. and actually -- they wo...

Already got all the info they need and we give them most of it ourselves any time we click like or comment they have very very good means of once they know better and once they know what your friends like and say know where you live once they know what kind of things you like or a share of the internet is so intertwined with our daily lives that we forget about it in fact there are a lot of good reasons why facebook probably isn't eavesdropping on me or on you for one facebook says it isn't doing it so if it's lying the company would face big fines from u.s. regulators not to mention a huge pu...

And they used ways to hide their identity from the american citizens and they even bought server space in the united states so their communications were traced, it would not lead back to russia. here's the deputy attorney general from the last hour. >> using stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts and false identification documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans advocating for and against particular candidates. >> reporter: the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein also told reporters that this interference was part of a bigger pr...