created a simulacrum of the internet, the only real thing is ads. you re showing sfoeks you re popular. one way tootd it, hire a company in china, this is what it looks like, they just play the video on a wall of phones. nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? max read joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that s funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. pays my salary. pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to create ways of defrauding as if there are actually people watching the ads when they re not. so one of these cases, the
thing was the ads. let s give an example. one way to do it, hire a company in china, this is what it looks like, they just play the video on a wall of phones. nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? maximum reed joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that s funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. pays my salary. pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to create ways of defrauding as if there are actually people watching the ads when they re not. yeah. so one of these cases, the doj just indicted these guys in november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they
nobody is watching these actual videos here lined up right there, see that, but the views are going up. if you think 2016 russian disinformation was bad or unnerving, that was the tip of the iceberg. what if the entire internet is a fraud? max read joins me now. this piece blew my mind, particularly the lengths people are going to to game the system. so one big thing is, advertisers are buying ads on the internet, which is the main thing that s funding the internet, right, commercial content on the internet. pays my salary. pays your salary. and people are going to insane lengths to create ways of defrauding as if there are actually people watching the ads when they re not. so one of these cases, the doj just indicted these guys in november, they basically rented server space in dallas and they built a whole raft of fake websites. and then created a bunch of fake people who go to the websites. they moved cursors like real people, clicked on stuff like real people.
essential that the american people understand that the russians undertook a massive effort that involved reaching out to the trump campaign, and we ll get back to collusion, involved working apparently with the nra, involving buying ads on facebook, involving really fundamentally manipulating the way we as americans think about our candidates and our politics in a way that was not about us but about them. one of the things this whole butina thing is going to do and one thing we need to do is make sure every american understands when they look at something on facebook, and you know, shout out something and promote a particularly explosive tweet or go to an nra conference or whatever it may be, they may be serving vladimir putin s interests. that s a story that really needs to be told. and to the point, and this puts a fine point on what you re just saying. when anyone from the president on down says that it s a hoax that russia was trying to influence the election, you can see right h
politicos. will it be a 2006 midterm backlash to a controversial president that hand the speaker gavel back to nancy pelosi? we never know until election night, but the clues show despite donald trump s attempts to troll and outrage his way into the headlines, the fundamentals show strategists in both parties see the democrats on offense. so yes, watch what the politicians do, not what they say. trump has been talking about a host of last-minute midterm ploys, but his party s spending and battle plan shows a scramble to protect candidates even in red districts that overwhelmingly back trump. take this kentucky district that went for trump by 15 points. republicans sent paul ryan there today, deploying star power to a place that was once a safe seat. same story in red south carolina, a district that went for trump by 13 points. now the gop is buying ads there. so yes, there s plenty of noise about these trump rallies. but look. they are in these red places. playing defense.