there s more to this story and a lot facebook isn t telling us. joining me now is spencer ackerman from the daily beast. he s been breaking news about this throughout the week. cnn confirming the journal reporting reporting there s a search warrant. why is it significant that mueller was able to get a search warrant for this facebook information? this is a company that has a tremendous, tremendous amount of data on its servers about what these illicit and fraught ledul account that spread russian propagan propaganda. it also has data on its servers about information the trump campaign and its associates had through facebook during the 2016 election. we know the trump campaign had those interactions? we know that facebook not only, a, like it would with any campaign, provide add team to the trump campaign to help it target voters using facebook and simply elections in significant ways occur on facebook as much
as they occur through other medias so what we can do with this data is figure out if there are some hard correlations between between what we see with russian propaganda and what we see with the trump campaign or pro-trump information and that is what it looks like robert mueller is going after. this is something that would at least allow mueller would allow investigators, would allow congress to see if even outside collusion emerges, this would give you prima fascia evidence. you reported these russian troll farms posting stuff on to facebook surreptitiously created real life events, including one in twin falls. this is significant because it a test first time we see confirmation of russian propaganda occurring online influencing we don t know the size and scope but influencing real life behaviobehavior. there was a small protest in twin falls, idaho, an
scrutiny for good reasons. you ve reported on these hateful ads that you can use facebook or google or twitter or other companies to target hateful ads to people? i would mention when we re looking at the question of media literacy, the company doesn t give users information by which they can reasonably adjudicate what s legitimate and what s not, what s coming from other americans and what s not. it s up to you even though you don t the tools as a facebook user to make this determination and it becomes either on the one hand a default assumption that you are seeing credible investigation from other americans or alternatively it s up to you to say this whole thing is fake, i don t trust whatever i m giving you. and fake news came from a lot of sources before election day. it wasn t just russian propagandists in moscow putting up bs stories on the internet. but the point is mueller honing in on to what extent russia was responsible for some of the lies and propaganda that was out