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Stop disinformation. that's why you saw announcements this week from microsoft, from facebook, from twitter, from go google. . that's not an accident. these companies are working together to find and stop these groups. the problem is the companies can't do it by themselves. this is going to require all of society approach to push back and deter these adversaries because in the long run, in an open society like ours, there's always a chance for this kind of disinformation and propaganda to be injected into social media and the media environment overall. >> yeah. did you try to raise alarms in 2...

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...

That's not an accident. these companies are working together to find and stop these groups. the problem is the companies can't do it by themselves. this is going to require all of society approach to push back and deter these adversaries because in the long run, in an open society like ours, there's always a chance for this kind of disinformation and propaganda to be injected into social media and the media environment overall. >> yeah. did you try to raise alarms in 2016 about what was going on, from your position were you able to see there was this nefarious behavior going on? >> 2016, we we...

Companies can't do it by themselves. this is going to require an all of society approach to push back and deter these adversaries because in the long run in an open society like ours there is always the chance for this kind of disinformation and propaganda to be injected into social media and the media environment overall. >> did you try to raise alarms in 2016 about what was going on from your position? where you able to see that there was this nefarious behavior going on? >> so in 2016 we were really focused on the traditional types of cyber security threats from russia that we expected arou...