information warfare and this isn t something that s new to the ukraine war. we ve seen it since russians tried to interfere with our elections in 2016. the american people right now have a role to play. that is not simply to accept this. it s to play defense. the best way to play defense is for ukraine for the cause of democracy is to get out there and spread a positive message. spread the real news on social media. there are certain things that i ve tweeted recently, things like the ghost of kiev, which we know is a myth of the ukrainian fighter pilot who has taken down 15 russian planes. go ahead and tweet those memes. the response we are getting from the russian troll farms, troll factories are we re exhausting their resources. this is something that is you are asking people to
i have been shocked. i didn t by the way, the new r. kelly hashtag and movement, this idea of sanctioning and boycotting and divesting from r. kelly culturally and financially was began by two women before the documentary aired, and we featured them in the docuseries, but i know that that s like the right, you know, way to go. it has, you know, forever resulted in actual, you know, consequences when we divest, you know, from supporting someone who is literally using this money to run his operation where he is trafficking, you know, young girls, post teenagers, teenagers. i also, like you said, know that there is a free r. kelly hashtag, largely began by two ex-employees of his who are running troll farms, but i can t
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it is time for lawmakers to finally say that facebook, based on what we have seen in this the wall street journal expose, five articles as well as m.i.t. review piece this week about troll farms, does not make facebook a truly trusted partner when they claim they want regulation and when they claim they want legislation, and it s time for the government to step up and protect the public. i will give you the most clear example, so when the report in the wall street journal about instagram and about how they knew, their internal reporting showed it was causing depression amongst teen girls, whether that was 1%, 5% or 15% is not the point. the problem it was a problem with their platform and instead of prioritizing how to fix that, they, with the knowledge of that report, claimed they didn t know about and tried to launch instagram kids. and it is on our government to decide that is not okay to launch a new instagram for