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>> the facebook paid political advertising for the russians was relatively small. but the total volume of fake accounts and the number of americans that it touched was over a 120 million. >> facebook was also inundated with fake news from other sources. in the home stretch of the 2016 election u.s. facebook users engaged more with fake news stories about the race than all the top stories from actual news outlets like "the washington post" or "the new york times." critics said if you got your election news from facebook you probably weren't getting news at all. >> it wasn't just russia gaming f...

Lives. with 2.2 billion users worldwide. >> facebook has become bigger and more powerful than i think anyone expected. the goal with the whole world on facebook and we all live in facebook. >> and the facebook we all live in has never seen a year like 2018. >> facebook took a major hit on wall street today losing over 40 billion dollars in market value after the revelations that cambridge analytica, a company tied to the trump campaign allegedly collected data from tens of millions of facebook profiles, all in the run up to the 2016 election. >> facebook was exposed for how it allowed cambridg...

Attempt to manipulate. >> which is what happened. >> which is what happened, yeah. >> nbc news interviewed the former facebook security chief and current msnbc analyst about how the russians infiltrated facebook to exploit fault lines in american society, create chaos and alienate voters. >> they will create a persona that pretends to be a black lives matter activist and then a competing persona that is pro-cop, and they'll both be in the same city, and they'll ramp up the rhetoric and create memes and create messages. >> and get everybody else involved. the point is you can create discord by ...

Advertise big the russians was relatively small but the total volume of fake accounts and the number of americans that it touched was over a 120 million >> facebook was also inundated with fake news from other sources. in the home stretch of the 2016 election u.s. facebook users engaged more with fake news stories about the race than all the top stories from actual news outlets like the washington post or the the "new york times." critics said if you got your election news from facebook you probably weren't getting news at all. >> it wasn't just russia that was gaming facebook. it was also ame...

The diner staffed up 'cause they all needed lunch. teachers... doctors... jobs grew a bunch. what started with one job spread all around. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. energy lives here. facebook's key role in many americans' daily lives made it a target for russia's operation to shape americans minds in 2016. and by 2017 it was clear that facebook was not just a target it was also, even if unwittingly an ad partner. >> today we got actual data from people in a position to know officials at facebook that a