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Its slowly realizing. That over the past few month, we seen facebook acknowledge their roll in the spread of propaganda in the last elections. You probably saw it. It didnt look like russian propaganda, of course. It looked like authentic news, the guardian connecting Hillary Clinton to the death of an fbi agent was shared over and over. Not only is that article not true, there is no such thing as the Denver Guardian him Facebook Says 140 Million People saw that on the news feed. That is more people than voted in the entire election. Facebook has tried several solutions from flagging news articles to asking users to credit News Agencies the simplest solution is to remove news articles, give up. But that, too, is a problem. Legitimate newsrooms around the country, newsrooms like the San Francisco chronicle count on traffic to drive it to their website. Audrey cooper is the editorinchief at the chronicle kwlts and wrote a scathing letter to Mark Zuckerberg saying, because you havent been
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Cyber security. This is about an hour and a half. Ok. Good evening, everyone. They keep are coming out to the forum. Tonight we have a great group of guests at the Kennedy School to talk about the digital threat to democracy. It is more often called the threat to the digital democracy. Leading experts in a very complicated field. Theyucky big rate were able to come appear. The systems that underpin that, and importantly, the electoral system of democratic governance, which is what was under attack in 2016 and earlier. Who will talk little bit about that. I would like to briefly introduce myself. Cambridge about six weeks now. In a past life, i was the department i was in charge of all things cyber at the pentagon. This is an issue that really resonates very strongly in my heart and in my gut. In the last year i was there at the obama and it Administration Come i saw a lot of bad things unfolding and the bad guys going after our democracy. It felt bad. Once i was out, i thought to mysel