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For it. >> reporter: the new revelations after congress grilled tech executives in the attempt for russians to meddle in the election. >> do you believe any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active ace measures on your platform. >> our investigation continues. so i would have to say no. >> congress is now considering legislation that would require social media companies to disclose who is buying political ads, similar to tv and radio and newspapers. jolene kent. and now let's bring in kurt wagner for recode and let's bring in eugene scott, washington post political ...

Ensure the content -- >> bottom line, those ads are cheap even though they can't keep the bill boards on the stands there in capitol hill. kara swisher joins you now, technology and business website, recode. thank you for joining us. >> no problem. >> these are -- they are not necessarily going after a certain political candidate but they are trying to do something pretty insidious. >> yeah, absolutely. you saw the range of things, one was looks like a black lives matter kind of thing and other is a confederate flag, they are going after division and trying to create divisiveness and taking ad...

>> recode executive editor, kara swisher. >> next, the russia blame game. wait until you hear who the president is reportedly pointing the finger at for the long list of dramas dogging his white house. stay with us and we're monitoring this hearing as well. we'll be right back. by listening to an thiaudiobook on audible.ame and this guy is just trying to get through the day. this guy feels like he can take on anything. this guy isn't sure he can take it anymore. unwavering self-confidence. stuck in a 4-door sedan of sadness. upgrade your commute. ride with audible. dial star star audible on yo...

Joining us now is tony rahm. senior editor for policy and politics at recode. tony, we got to start with what matters to these social media sites like twitter and facebook. these are public companies. every time they report earnings, it is all about user growth. user growth is how they show wall street analysts, look how many eyeballs are on us. it's how they go to advertisers and try to pull advertising dollars saying look at our impact. now we see bot after bot and russian influence. could facebook and twitter see this and stopped it? or did they have their eye on the prize and that's user g...

Administration? saying let's all have megamergers. >> this is a country attacking another country. >> right. >> it is. so let's just keep that in mind. that's really the point. what they'd like to do is take it away from the real point which is russia or whoever targets our country using our -- the inventions we created. it's -- it should be -- people should be worried about that. >> all right. we'll continue this again. kara, thanks for being here. she is the cofounder and editor of recode and she's on msnbc contributor. >> and an expert at wrestling pigs. stand by, everybody. two american ...