governments to participate in u.s. elections and if they are, not through paid advertising but through bots that drive the conversation, if they are doing that, if twitter and facebook don t do more to police the active on their sites themselves, is there something that congress should do to step in to force them to. we know that house intel committee chair adam schiff had said it is clear that twitter has significant forensic work to do to understand the depth and breath of russian activist during campaign and this additional analysis will require a far more robust investigation into how the russian actors used their platform as a part of their active measures campaign. and if there was an investment made and as matt is pointing out we still don t know the final figures on that, but if americans are complicit in being activated by this information that we see, that gets our attention, we share it. i think if you look at things in general, facebook, google,
a billion dollars spent in this campaign cycle to elect the next president, why would a spattering of accounts and $150,000 investment of facebook ads make the big balance of difference? well, i i think the problem is we don t know that is all of the spending that took place on either twitter or facebook. it seems clear that neither of the social networking sites has a really handle on how much russian activity there was on their sites. twitter especially hasn t done much investigation except looking at accounts that facebo turned questions that turned over to them. and the criminal question is there any american citithat helped the russian operatives help ad or post on twitter or fash and t facebook and the s is it is a policy question and it is illegal for foreign
government paid propaganda influencing investigation to run in the united states. so twitter and facebook if you want to buy an ad there is no type of review. it is a computer algorithm or network that reviews it. no actual person lays eyes on it and it seems that will have to change going forward if we are going to weed out the foreign government propaganda. it is a big ask when we think about the international companies with footprints that seeps into what we are doing. thank you, sir, we appreciate it. and the politics in puerto rico as the island tries to recover from the devastation left after maria and politics taking center stage as the president is in a bitter war of words with the mayor of san juan. the classes, the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, i m glad she ll miss
twitter, they are all organizations that have only been running ads for the past few years and i think even the average american doesn t realize how an ad gets in their feed in the first place. so whether or not it is from a bad actor or whether or not it from a legitimate organization is still there is still a lot of learning to be done on the user side and let alone think about how organizations governor themselves or people are calling for there to be some sort of governance within them. and matt, what do you think about that, when it comes to the regulation of how it will figure out,o can i, who is a good actor who could advertise here and who is a real person and not a bot. it is clear that facebook and twitter and we should say google as well with youtube will have to do something to try to identify that. look, if the russian government wants to come in and buy an ad to run on msnbc, there are people at the network as in all of the networks that would look at that ad and re
issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and again begs many more questions than they offered. so there we have senator mark warner slamming twitter for the presentation at the senate intel committee on thursday when the company disclosed it has shut down more than 200 accounts that were tied to the same russian operatives who bought at least $150,000 worth of political ads on facebook. now of 450 accounts, looreleasey facebook as part of the investigation, twitter was able to match 22 of those to its own site. so joining me now is msnbc justice and security analyst matt miller and technology writer for ad week marty swants. let me start with you, matt, the issue that senator warner was talking about there, with twitter and its records, are based only on information already unearthed on facebook. but if people are sitting at home and thinking that there was