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The messages and the messages. those are what spread virally. because people thought, you know, they were true, they were native. how does that get tackled in the future? >> exactly. facebook took almost a year to acknowledge this activity. the initial report was the russian -- this russian company, the internet research agency, had spent about $100,000 on ads. and that's not much. it was an in an election in which the trump campaign and clinton campaign each spent tens of millions of dollars on facebook ad. when you looked a little more closely, it was obvious that was not the sort of busines...

There's also a third reason why it remains in the news. those extra theories you've bhaerd. these sick sneers have been published on the web. these conspiracy theories are a form of pollution. they poison the media environment and they make all of us sick. it's a challenge for technology companies, a challenge for news rooms, a challenge for politicians and for all of us as ordinary users of the web to try to come to grips with all of these theories, these lies, these hoaxes that spread virally after a tragedy. so let's start there with david hogg. he's a senior from marjory stoneman douglas h...

Networks last year. i don't mean just ads but fake news sites that they created and spread virally. i think what congress will be looking for is how willing are these companies to police themselves and if they're not, if there's potential for a foreign intelligence service to use their social networks to spread disinformation again in an election, congress has to act. >> did we see this coming and ignored it or is it moving so fast that it's almost impossible to keep up with? >> i think we should have seen more coming. one of the challenges here is that the russians really were able to exploit...

Clinton's. involvement as it were with a child sex ring run out of a pizza parlor and you know in in washington d.c. completely false completely made up but it had a life of its own. pizza gate took hillary clinton and her team by surprise unnoticed by many people those behind the conspiracy story were able to spread propaganda on behalf of clinton's rival donald trump those stories and story lines you don't see him every day because they're not on television they're not on cable t.v. they're not in the mainstream newspaper outlets and yet they're being spread virally through social media and ...

Invent things that spread virally. the intent is to employ reporting and there is flaws because people want them to be true. what is the fake news here? it seems more challenging than it looks. >> a few categories and the classic politician exaggerates. was it 1,000 jobs or 700 something. do they go through a site that claims to be news? i think your reporting may be fantastic, but we have to talk about facebook. and facebook claims that it's not news media. they claim it's a platform and they can disseminate anything. they have taken tiny steps to stop that. legally they can't say we are medi...