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Nationals in connection with the 2016 presidential election. russia is far from the only country using social media to try to influence politics in the u.s. and beyond, the news that twitter yesterday suspended a network of suspected bots that bushed pro saudi arabia hash tags and talking points about jamal khashoggi, "the washington post" columnist who was killed in a consulate weeks ago. here to help me understand what's at stake here the executive director of recode and host of the recode decode podcast. benecol lines. one of the by lines about the bot story. >> they're fun ones, aren't the...

Nationals in connection with the 2016 presidential election. russia is far from the only country using social media to try to influence politics in the u.s. and beyond, the news that twitter yesterday suspended a network of suspected bots that bushed pro saudi arabia hash tags and talking points about jamal khashoggi, "the washington post" columnist who was killed in a consulate weeks ago. here to help me understand what's at stake here the executive director of recode and host of the recode decode podcast. benecol lines. one of the by lines about the bot story. >> they're fun ones, aren't the...

Social plug-ins such as the like button. it gets that information from websites and apps that rely on facebook analytics and its ad network. what's it used for? facebook told recode that website and app developers pay the company to tell them how many people visit their websites. facebook also claims it's used for security purposes so they can identify bots and fake accounts. how long does facebook keep the data? the company told recode it dleets brow deletes browsing data after ten days for non-users but only if it's collected through a social plug-in. data collected through an advertising ta...

Ba bandaleros and kill everybody. steve schmitt is exactly right. he's talking wisdom as i think he always does. i'm from tennessee, and, you know, we have great leaders like howard baker here in the senate. and great, great leaders who would do the things that can help the country. we need those leaders to step up. because this has to be changed on many fronts. gun control is one, but there's many other thinks, security, you know, education, coping skills, mental health issues. it's just when, you know, special interest groups try to carve at one thing you can't touch, can't touch this, you c...

These changed seem fine on paper but must next guest argues they don't go far enough. quote, the changes are cosmetic, facebook isn't changing the way it collected your data and it was used before and scattered in different pages that made it tougher to see. i'm joined by kirk wagner from recode. let's start about going through what is changing. i'm on facebook, four years ago i got off and i was given this cache of information and i have no idea what is in this and what is the result of these policy changes. >> if you are a facebook user today, it is hard to figure out what data you've given ...