your chairman says he planned to have a public hearing next month. i think one of the big questions is we know russian bots and troll factories took out fake news ads on facebook. is there any indication that any of these russians who were behind the social media campaign were givenny information fromny americans on the best way to in influence the election via social media? well, jake, we don t have the answer to that yet. it s one of the reasons why we want to hear from facebook. we ll hear from fwitwitter next week. what we do know in terms of the investigations russian hacked into and released information on one party to help mr. trump and hurt clinton. they attacked 21 states electoral systems and unfortunately our department of homeland security hasn t shared that information. so i m not premard how we stop them coming back next year. and we increasingly know that
they used both paid advertising and equally, if not more, i think significant, a number of fake accounts and dummy accounts to try to drive stories, drive actually seen more recent stories where they were trying to drive americans to come out to andty clinton rallies. so the level of some of the sophistication on the social media side and the level of targeti targeting really leaves me with a lot of questions that we want facebook to answer in public. but just to be clear you don t know ofny evidence as of now thatny russians gotny information on what states to target or demographics to target or anything like that from anybody in the united states? jake, i can t answer that question yet because we have not had all of the appropriate individuals in yet to be interviewed. and that s one of the questions i have. i am concerned, though, as