senior ed toward for the atlantic, host of crazy genius. love the name of that. tony, you ve been digging through these ads. most of them, as far as i can see, it s not like they re endorsing a specific candidate. what they re doing is spreading inflammatory messages on sensitive subjects including immigration, race. was this largely a campaign to inflame and divide the american voter? it was absolutely about sewing social and cultural unrest here in the united states at a very important time, right around the 2016 presidential election. starting at about mid-2015, facebook began to notice that online trolls associated with the internet research agency, which is a sanctioned arm of the kremlin, were posting these ads and other content on facebook. and then throughout that two-year period, we see constant examples of ads that play on issues of race, on issues like immigration, on gun control, on lgbt rights. some did mention donald trump and his candidacy and hillary clint and her c
think that this can be fixed by 2018. it can t be fixed by 2018. this is an unbelievably complex problem. mark zuckerberg has built mark zuckerberg of course. he s built a persuasion machine. he has built this platform. and he goes around telling advertisers we are the new television. we are the best way to tell people what to buy, how to buy it, how much to spend, where to go, come to us, give us your money, stop giving it to television. that is the reason why this company is worth 400, $500 billion, whatever its market cap today. you can t go around and turn to political organizations and say we can t persuade to anybody don t spend here. you can t turn that off without turning off facebook. tell us the name of the podcast again. crazy genius. i love it. thank you, tony, derek, appreciate it. a change in southern politics. this is really fascinating. rehema ellis reporting on a record number of black women on the ballot. why are you running now? there s a need.
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