russian information in the state department was to do the same thing back to them they were doing to us. no, your mother wears army boots to date myself. but what happens is that s what they like. they want you to get down in the dirt with them and they re better at it than we are. and one of the things that we realized when we talked this morning, they re not terribly sophisticated as they weren t trying to reach a sophisticated audience. remember, no tweet from a russian troll in st. peters berg is going to change hillary clinton s voting to suddenly a donald trump voter because of a tweet. it s very hard for governments to counter and to undermine this. as i say in the book, as you know i say we don t have a fake news problem, we have a media literacy problem. we don t teach people how to evaluate things that are fact or fictional. we talk a lot about what government can or can t do. there s cities and
who found themselves in these hourly paid jobs at the internet research agency. these weren t sophisticated people necessarily who were doing this. the messaging and the organization came down through the kremlin, the u.s. government believes. the real takeaway here, kasie, is that one of my takeaways, is the u.s. government and the social media companies have yet to figure out a way to stop this. it s happening again. just last week i wrote about a campaign based in iran that was seeking to manipulate american public opinion through twitter and facebook and twitter and facebook shut down the accounts after they were outed essentially by another cyber security firm. there s really no strategy and it s very difficult to see how one would exist to combat this. it s not just happening with foreign governments. it s happening in american elections. americans do this as well. the fake news problem on social media is getting out of control and we all need to come to grips with how to deal wi
facebook simply say, let s dismantle facebook live until we figure it out? reporter: they knew this could be a problem that violent video could be a problem before they launched live and yet they decide live was going to be this next version of how people use facebook. we were talking about the problem of violent video on facebook live since before we were talking about the fake news problem, cambridge analytica, any of those issues has been with facebook for years. yet, they haven t gotten to the point that they can guarantee us they won t see this horrific video which you mentioned was taken down 1.5 million times. that means maybe there are some that facebook didn t get or there are edited versions of it. we just don t know because there isn t a lot of transparency around it? why not? sarah, this is an issue of will, not ability. i give bloomberg as an example.
a rare statement calling buzzfeed s reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn t that the press was foolish and reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. that wasn t the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. the problem is the fake news problem any time any time that somebody gets something so spectacularly wrong and everybody piles on it furthers the narrative this is another american institution that the people of our country can t trust, that s the problem with the buzzfeed story. no, it is and got to remind people there are people who want to exploit.
a rare statement calling buzzfeed s reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn t that the press was foolish andhe reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. o that wasn t the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. the problem is the fake news problem any time any time that somebody gets something so spectacularly wrong and everybody piles on it furthers the narrative this is another american institution that the people of our country can t trust, that s the problem with the buzzfeed story. no, it is and got to remind people there are people who want to exploit. they want to see us be put