sure. and they could combined attack the american electoral process and throw it into chaos. you don t need to have donald trump have votes tallied for him. you need to make it appear that the democrats have done something and then throw it into chaos. right. and have the entire thing be what donald trump called it, a rigged process. mitch mcconnell as joe scarborough has named him has earned his title of moscow mitch. he either will stand up and defend this nation, or he should just admit that he wants moscow s assistance many this next election. there is also the question of just how extensive. obviously we know about the wikileaks, about the hacked emails. we know about the troll factories and all that. but the degree to which, you know, russian hackers were inside election systems, including efforts in illinois. this is a recap of the most to me unnerving part of that
fact more than half a 1000000000 people have actually seen the content over the last 3 months now that s 6000000 people a day and that s can certainly be disruptive in the lead up to an election like we have now and just to emphasize the scale even more facebook you said took down 77 all these 500 pages but those 77 pages they have more followers than all of the populists many populist parties in these 6 european countries have together now it was also interesting is who is actually spreading this this information we re talking about local grassroots groups and we re no longer talking about you know large caches of documents being dumped online we re not talking about russian troll troll factories like we saw for example in the 2016 u.s. election so what are some of the examples that highlight it so most of the material that they re looking at is basically a narrative warfare for the far right now we have an example from germany with
fact more than half a 1000000000 people have actually seen the content over the last 3 months now that s 6000000 people a day and that s can certainly be destructive in the lead up to an election like we having now and just to emphasize the scale even more facebook you said took down 77 of these 500 pages but those 77 pages they have more followers than all of the populists many populist parties in these 6 european countries have together now it was also interesting is who is actually spreading this this information we re talking about local grassroots groups now we re no longer talking about you know large caches of documents being dumped online we re not talking about russian troll troll factories like we saw for example in the in the 2016 u.s. election so what are some of the examples that highlight it so most of the material that they re looking at is basically a narrative warfare for the far right now we have an example from germany with
that s 6000000 people a day and that s can certainly be destructive in the lead up to an election like we have it now and just to emphasize the scale even more facebook you said took down $77.00 of these $500.00 pages but those $77.00 pages they have more followers than all of the populists many populist parties in these 6 european countries have together now it was also interesting is who is actually spreading this this information we re talking about local grassroots groups now we re no longer talking about you know large caches of documents being dumped online we re not talking about russian troll factories like we saw for example in the 2016 u.s. election so what are some of the examples that highlighted. so most of the material that they re looking at is basically a narrative warfare for the far right now we have an example from germany with multiple pages seemingly belonging to one. from the f.t.
first phase of the investigation, bots and trolls and troll factories. this kind of payments under the table is a lot like the russia i know. what s interesting about vekselberg is he was sanctioned. i remember wondering why he was put on the sanctions list. now it seems we know why. it seems he was even after the inauguration funneling money to this unknown llc that the president s lawyer had. how would he have known about it? what was that money for? i talked this evening to a source close to the trump world. and i said what was that money for? and he said for access, of course. what else? but there is no proof or indication at this point, phil, that any of these payments were illegal. it seems now to be just information that wasn t previously disclosed. do you disagree with that? i don t disagree. but i do agree with julia. it s a rare moment. i have to line up right behind