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And sow discord, pit americans against one another, make democracy look weak in the eyes of americans, make democracy look weak in the eyes of pro-democracy activist in russia. and, you know, thinking about how we go forward, you bring up the point of media literacy, so often when i talk with the folks who have been researching this for a very long time, they always talk about the question of media literacy. how do we teach americans to be able to recognize real news versus fake news? not what the president says is real news versus fake news but actual real news first fake news because this pr...

Manipulated. we wouldn't ask people how to figure out ho to assemble their car. we would have regulations about safety and zmoosh i get your point. not just about literacy. >> i don't think it's enough. it's an artifact of the fact people have used information warfare to start trusting our institutions so we're at point where people don't trust anything spop we need to rebuild that trust in a different way. dylan, are question we going to see these facebook ads we of heard about that were targeted? you heard one example about black lives matter messaging. are we going the see these ads for o...

One another. and it was doing that in key markets like baltimore, ferguson, missouri, it was organizing events and actually had a following over 360,000 likes on its facebook page, that is more than the verified black lives matter account. >> wow. >> the goal was dissension on both sides. twitter executives, they spoke to the senate intelligence committee yesterday and the ranking member of that committee, mark warner, didn't like what he heard or more accurately, didn't like what he didn't hear, right. he was deeply disappointed, he said, and sounded angry, about it after the twitter folks we...

It -- it -- under pressure from congress went and looked for ads specifically tied to the internet research agency which is that shadowy russian troll farm we've talked about in the past. that's it. they just found the accounts that were, obviously, linked to that. twitter came along and just found the accounts that matched up with what facebook found. anything more sophisticated, we're talking about anything that was bought with a different currency, bought with -- through an ip address that wasn't russian, anything more sophisticated than that, didn't find. so warner, other lawmakers, feelin...

Saying. the cuban government cooperating and says they are not involved and certainly the attacks that tillerson feels for safety issues he needs to take out the employees and families. a u.s. marine corps osprey crashed in syria. one u.s. service member was injured but the injuries are not life threatening. an official says the cause of the accident was not due to enemy activity and describing it as a hard landing and it's a reminder u.s. military personnel are in harm's way in syria. >> absolutely. the russian government, a fake social media campaign, how twitter and facebook were used to ...