them well? >> i think it's both right now, and even in the context of russia we see these places label fake news, to try to address a lot of the fact there is garbage on their feeds. twitter in particular has had no choice but to do this because of abuse problems on that platform and they're things they can no longer choose to avoid or for whatever reason it wasn't tackling those previously. but there's certainly an effort on the part of these companies to deal with these things, and it typically does come down to the question of registration. facebook and twitter disclose information about those ads, including who those ads targeted specifically because there was congress threatening this hearing and planning to drag them to capitol hill to ask them about their practices. >> tony robb is a senior editor from policy and politics. >> can i ask you a question? >> yeah. >> two weeks ago was the first opportunity we had in ages to