Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday urged the government to put an end to the alleged "systematic interference" of Facebook and other social media giants in India's electoral politics
he s 74 years old now. i would say today he showed every evidence of being a 74-year-old man who is probably eager to return to private life. indeed. also, pulling out his emphasis on how russia did have a widespread conspiracy, a russian conspiracy to attack our election. something that should be of concern to all americans. he is certainly signaling something. reporter: he came to that at the beginning go ahead. reporter: said that at the beginning and came back to the end. almost as if to say, in all the politics here, don t forget somebody tried to interfere in our election and that should be the big take away. his office did distribute the sort of its final report card as though the report doesn t say it, the list of all the charges they filed. key among those are the two charges against the russians for the hacking and the social media
mismanagement force out the embattled interior secretary. thank you all, merry christmas, happy hanukkah, have a great new year, we re going to have an incredible new year for our country, most importantly. and good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington where the massive scope and depth of russia s social media interference on behalf of the trump campaign in 2016, a covert effort continuing to this day is now revealed in two new investigative reports commissioned by the senate intelligence committee and embraced by both parties. the scale of the operation to hurt hillary clinton in the campaign is staggering. according to these new analyses. the u.s. cyber security called new knowledge showed on facebook alone, the russians reached 126 million people with 20 million more connections on their social media subsidiary, instagram.
push pause either. so, matt miller all the times i laid out previously that the trump administration and trump s lawyers have called for an end to it, bob mueller has ignored those calls. is he aware and conscious and do you think he feels any pressure from the outside on his investigation? i doubt he feels a lot of pressure from the outside. when bob mueller was running the fbi, he handled his job with the fbi the same way he handles this one which is to put his head down and plow forward. one of the interesting things about the president s strategy is i think the time when mueller s probe was in this long, kind of five-month period between when they indicted russians for the social media interference and indicted russians for the hacking. there was a five-month period where they were really dark. the president was making some headway arguing at this was going on too long. he is now back in business. he s back out. kind of indicting russians.
social media interference. right. there was a new phenomenon this week that a bun bunch of us had to explain to the public, the qanon. it s in the dark recesses of social media on reddit and places like that. qanon is apparently some elaborate it takes one conspiracy and puts them all together. donald trump is either this secret deep state superhero or john f. kennedy jr. they don t believe is dead. tell us more about these people. this has been the big fear is russia opened a playbook for the rest of the world to copy. this is super cheap and whether it s political interference or manipulation or just social manipulation, this gives everyone the ability to push a falsehood. which leads to a public safety issue. qanon, this idea there s a secret source inside the intelligence community, oh, my, we have worry about this before with the nsa. and know we re worried that they re leaking the information. this plays into you can t trust