Hill today . Yes, facebook, twitter, google, they all were not over, but prokremlin put ads and videos all sorts of things across platforms. In david instagrampa in google thy sought to cause chaos and confusion throughout the 2010 election. Host we are hearing from the reach of the russian constant far wider than first reported and to bring us up to date the news is going to the highprofileo hearings today speak to write. This afternoon iss the Senate Judiciary subcommittee and tomorrow is house intelligent and Senate Intelligence and well found out facebook told us last night at 470 pro trump kremlin account for about 80000 post chain january through august 2015 the reached millions of people. That is not one person. Literally 126 Million People in instagram and part of facebook had another 127,000 pieces of content. It wasnt something small and a Little Something that you can click out of when you go to the website but was over 100 Million People. Host are these executives expected
The big loser yesterday has come roaring back today. We are looking at gains after a bit of a pullback yesterday. The nasdaq up nearly half a percent. Putting in a new alltime high. It does follow the more than 1 drop yesterday. The russell 2000 still about 1 below its record high. There are some strategists who think the russell 2000 shopping is could be a precursor for a nearterm pullback for the major averages including Katie Stockton of btig. We could see a nearterm pullback for the major averages. Would refreshs it a potential year and rally. Lets take a look at the small cap underperformance. Its a one year chart of the russell 2000 to the s p 500. Overall not doing much over the last six months. That going into september. Big smallcap outperformance. Lots of these companies are very u. S. Based. Very sensitive to the tax policy. Over the month of october really underperforming. This could be a tell on whats ahead for the s p 500 and the dow. Take a look at some tech stocks perfo
Papadopoulos r. Guilty plea yeand the indictments that came down yesterday is serious stuff as it relates to collusion. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] we are live on capitol hill this afternoon as congressional committees are holding three hearings today and tomorrow. Looking at russian influence on the 2016 president ial election. This is the first hearing that were about to show you. This is the Senate Judiciary committee here on cspan. Officials from twitter, facebook and google will be explaining how russian organizations purchased ads and they spread fake news. Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. I think senator grassley comes, hell certainly be allowed to do so
Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. I think senator grassley comes, hell certainly be allowed to do so. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. Were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would be here if it werent for social media, to be honest with you, President Trump told fox news on october 20, 2017. So this is the president of the United States saying that from his point of view, social media was an invaluable tool to help him win an election. I would dare say that every politician up here today asking you questions uses your service and we find it invaluable to communicate with our constituents and get our message out. Not only do we use it, not only does the president us
I want to say on behalf of the full committee the families and friends of those effected by a senseless terror act. To most on this committee we have come to expect this. We have spent countless hours working through the threats that exist to this country and around the world and its sad we have come to the point where nothing can happen that surprises us. Its the responsibility of this committee to work hand in hand to help keep america safe by providing the tools that they need. It is in spreading disinformation and discord during the 2016 elections. This was an opportunity for each of you to tell your respective stories and if necessary correct the record it will be discussing russia and russias activities. Im hoping to provide with how foreign actors used their platforms to circulate lives and agitate unrest during last years elections. Im also hopeful youll share with us what youre companies are doing to make it harder for foreign actors to use your platforms automatted accounts a