I did not want you to believe this, or that it was a deliberate attempt. They used to express these distorted issues and what should be done in this context. One of the things that mr. President did in his actions, this speech of hashemi, was that this censorship of valid information and dissemination of invalid information, which has been accepted in the world for a term, has been accepted as a keyword. It has been done and showing the good text of the iranian nation was victorious in the field last year, but you have actually shown the reality of the iranian nation that the media war is the psychological and cognitive war that was imposed on the iranian nation last year, the heaviest media war in history. Imposed on the country they themselves announce the latest sanctions regime that they imposed against the iranian nation and they themselves announced in the white house that once the policy of maximum pressure failed was imposed on the iranian nation, if it was another country, ira
Any later than we are. If i could the members of the committee are returning but if i could start with some of my questions, youll be aware that the committee has made repeated requests to twitter for information about the activity of accounts, fake accounts, particularly where they may be connected with russian agencies. It is a similar request made by the u. S. Senate intelligence committee. Thank you, chairman. Thank you for having us today. I would like to defer that question to nick, my colleague from the uk, who does have an update to give you. As he said, and in my letters previously, we have been doing further investigation. I would like to read this because it is i dont want to misread them. Is it very short . Two paragraphs. We have a broader investigation that has been identified a a very small number of suspected internet linked accounts, 49 accounts were active. We had 49 accounts that were active, which represents less than 5 of the total accounts that tweeted about the r
To try to get them as close as they can to what theyre aiming. But yes. By country, we do really well, like nick said. About 2 of our users geolocate at any moment. At any given time, theres a degree of uncertainty. I just want to be really clear. The question im asking, would you sell advertising would you sell an audience based on a location in a country. Yes. Thank you, chair. Now, you mentioned the figure before has gone up in terms of what you said of fake accounts effectively. Weve had security briefings from people who stood at this subject since 2014. Theyre suggesting the figure could be in the tens of thousands in terms of fake accounts. In addition, the phenomena we see which is probably more damaging is the means by which this is used to amplify these fake accounts and disinformation, which are often accounts which have a certain bona fide texture to them. If you drill right down, they have all the signatures of falsehood about them in that respect. Now, obviously you dont
Fossil fuels and Global Warming. We will speak to a number of guests including Bill Mckibben, cofounder of 350. Org. Mr. Tillerson was boasting about how the company was going out and making new finds oil in new places around the world. We have five times as much carbon in our reserves already as we can burn. The idea with should celebrate the expiration for new hydrocarbons at this point it is passed irony that some dark place that i dont really have a name for. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President elect donald trump is expected to name exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. The selection prompted outrage and condemnation among environmental groups. Exposes by Insideclimate News and the Los Angeles Times reveal exxon knew that fossil fuels cause Global Warming as early as the 1970s, but hid that information from the public, and instead poured millions of dollars into pr effor
Tillerson is already facing criticism for his s close ties o russian president Vladimir Putin and for exxons role in covering up the link between burning fossil fuels and Global Warming. We will speak to a number of guests including Bill Mckibben, cofounderer of 350. Org. Mr. T tillerson was boasting about how the company was going out and making new finds oil in new places around the world. We h have fifive times as much carbon in our reserves already as we can burn. Ththe idea with should celebrate the expiration for new hydrocarbobons at this pointnt t is passed irony that some dark place that i dont really have a name for. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President elect donald trump is expected to name exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. The selection prompted outrage and condemnation among environmental groups. Exposes by Insideclimate News and the Los Angeles Times reveal