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For that coordinated inauthentic behavior of pushing the stories of what is sometimes called fake news, sometimes called disinformation of pushing those over and over again in front of people's eyeballs and trying to raise the divisiveness in american society overall. >> mark zuckerberg has been criticized for not taking this seriously enough. how much personal responsibility do you think and other tech ceos bear for this? >> well, you know, it's hard to say. we're at this intersection of these huge historical forces and whomever the ceos were going to be of these companies, this was always an...

On the traditional types of cyber security threats from russia we expected around the election, particularly the hacking campaign. and what we did see, we turned over proactively to federal law enforcement. what wasn't of -- as something that we were looking into as deeply at the time was the pure problem began do activities and that's where i think the companies have really made big steps in the last two years to have dedicated teams looking for propaganda actors as well as a bunch of technology that makes for that coordinated inauthentic behavior of pushing the stories of what is sometimes c...

Have dedicated teams looking for propaganda actors as well as a bunch of technology that makes for that coordinated inauthentic behavior of pushing the stories of what is sometimes called fake news, sometimes called disinformation of pushing those over and over again in front of people's eyeballs and trying to raise the divisiveness in american society overall. >> mark zuckerberg has been criticized for not taking this seriously enough. how much personal responsibility do you think and other tech ceos bear for this? >> well, you know, it's hard to say. we're at this intersection of these huge ...

Lot of corporate ceos, tech ceos, big titans of companies, they are all saying the same things now, if we want to see our companies grow, if we want to see our companies thrive in the 21st century economy, diversity is the future. the fact that newsrooms and media companies haven't picked up on that is sad and it speaks to the fact -- it speaks to how the coverage is done. why no one is talking about chicago is because there aren't enough african-americans in the newsroom. >> ed: gianno -- >> we are doing it. i am thankful that richard and i are talking about chicago. in addition to that, we t...

Companies admit to being a media company? for so long it's been about the open public square and having it a place to have freedom of speech. now they are starting to see some of those society divisions really coming to fruition here. a lot of these top tech ceos and the executives that surround them are telling me they are thinking twice about what's bei going on. >> alex jones may want to lump himself into conservative outlets. he is a conspiracy theorist who has lied repeatedly. thank you so much for joining us today. >> thanks, katy. the president made a dangerous accusation over the wee...