aspect. what we re seeing is that s not going to be good enough. so you ve seen this progression first with us publishing the paper in april of 2017 then later in the summer of 2017. more information first coming out of facebook then later out of twitter and google about the kinds of things we had found in 2016. and what i think you re going do see now is this regular pace of all the major tech companies coming out and saying in very short order after an event happens we have found this activity, we have stopped it, here s what we know and here s what we re doing to stop it in the future. we know that one thing that essentially trying to foment dissent on controversial topics online and this has sort of come back to the center with alex jones who after some pressure was critics call it censored but others say, look, this guy is violating terms of service, left, right and center and is saying things that are, frankly,
long-term impact of the company he s built. and i think it s great that we ve seen from mark and the other ceos them taking personal responsibility then getting personally involved with leading the response in 2018 and 2020. do you think that facebook has been transparent enough with its users in how it s dealing with this? this is also one of those interesting changes over the last couple of years. it used to be the acceptable steps that a company would take if finding activity by a foreign country was to inform law enforcement. inform the federal government. and let them handle the public aspect. what we re seeing is that s not going to be good enough. so you ve seen this progression first with us publishing the paper in april of 2017 then later in the summer of 2017. more information first coming out of facebook then later out of twitter and google about the kinds of things we had found in 2016. and what i think you re going do see now is this regular pace of all the major tech
when internet technology gave billions of people voice, it also opened the door for entirely new types of manipulation that we ve never seen before. what i can say about mark is i know he takes this really seriously. he is really concerned about the long-term impact of the company he s built. and i think it s great that we ve seen from mark and the other ceos them taking personal responsibility then getting personally involved with leading the response in 2018 and 2020. do you think that facebook has been transparent enough with its users in how it s dealing with this? this is also one of those interesting changes over the last couple of years. it used to be the acceptable steps that a company would take if finding activity by a foreign country was to inform law enforcement. inform the federal government. and let them handle the public aspect. what we re seeing is that s not going to be good enough. so you ve seen this progression first with us publishing the paper in april of 2017
great that we ve seen from mark and the other ceos them taking personal responsibility and getting personally involved with leading the response in 2018 and 2020. do you think that facebook has been transparent enough with its users in how it s dealing with this? this is one of those interesting changes in the last couple of years. it used to be the acceptable steps that a company would take if finding activity by a foreign country was to inform law enforcement, inform the federal government and let them handle the public aspect. what we re seeing is that that s not going to be good enough. so you ve seen this progression, first with us publishing a paper in april of 2017 and then later in december of 2017, more information first coming out of facebook and then later out of twitter and google about the kinds of things we had found in 2016. what i think you re going to see now is this regular pace of all of the major tech companies coming out and saying in very short order after an
no, no, no. you couldn t make this up. i use my cousin vinnie too often. no, no, no. you could not make that up as evidence of incompetence and unethical lawyering. i would just be petrified today, wondering what exactly michael cohen is going to charge in what is going to be charged against him. we know campaign finance violations and tax fraud, we know bank fraud. this is not going to settle well with president trump. you look at how michael cohen wasn t just brought into the fold of the republican party, he was made deputy finance chair in april of 2017, and only in june had to step down from that role. so this has been active, even after what he did on the campaign, which we don t know but i m hoping we ll find out more soon. and the president called him