Injured several others. Senator graham was chairing a meeting of the crime and terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on extremist content and russian disinformation online. Representatives from twitter, facebook, and google appeared as part of the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the last president ial election. The hearing lasted about three hours. And we are going to show you some of that now. Starting with Opening Statements from earlier today. Thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle. Ill make an opening statement, senator whitehouse, i think senator feinstein would like to make one, and if senator grassley come, he will certainly be allowed to do this. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. So were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would
Papadopoulos r. Guilty plea yeand the indictments that came down yesterday is serious stuff as it relates to collusion. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] we are live on capitol hill this afternoon as congressional committees are holding three hearings today and tomorrow. Looking at russian influence on the 2016 president ial election. This is the first hearing that were about to show you. This is the Senate Judiciary committee here on cspan. Officials from twitter, facebook and google will be explaining how russian organizations purchased ads and they spread fake news. Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. I think senator grassley comes, hell certainly be allowed to do so
Traditional cyber security, account compromised, surveillance, dissemination of stolen information. It is only recently that we have seen this threats evolve into this threat you all into dissemination of misinformation. Countries, specific it really is a global threat that we think of it. We would certainly be happy to come back and provide more details on specific actors. Is that true for the rest of you . We as we said in a written testimony see a disproportionate amount of spam or automated accounts coming out of russia. Our tools and technology are agnostic to country. Can hereon and north korea potentially do this . Cant you iran and north korea potentially do this . Yes the internet is borderless. You said you started picking up foreign interference two years ago, is that right . Been tracking threats actors for several years. Before the 2016 election cycle. Did you find activity after the election . Yes we did. What happened after the election . Following the election, we had s
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