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