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They learned a number of adds placed during the election were outfits under an anonymous accounts, and they ads. Political divisive not necessarily, it seems like candidate or sowing but just aimed at decisiveness on certain topics. 8 00 eastern monday on cspan 2. Host is our guest this week to talk about facebook, russia. Al ads and ms. Angwin what have we learned in the past couple of months rom the investigation into facebook and the russian ads [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] julia thanks for having me on. Weve learned a lot in the last month about facebook and russia. Ssentially facebook has said hey learned that bunch of ads placed during the election were under by russian outfits anonymous accounts. They were politically divisive ads. Seemed like ly it aimed a ....
Thanks for having me on. We have learned a lot in the last month or two about facebook and russia, especially facebook has said a bunch of ads placed during the election were placed by russian outfits under anonymous accounts and they were politically divisive ads, not necessarily aimed at one candidate or another, but just aimed at sowing divisiveness on some really charged topic. Why did facebook not seem to know who was placing these ads. Its not totally clear why facebook didnt do more Due Diligence on these accounts, the ads were bought in ruble, there are laws that say foreigners cant buy election ads, but apparently they slipped through and because they were under some sort of fake identities, maybe they didnt find them until recently. Now what i learned in your reporting is that these are basically selfservice ad placements, correct . Does not necessarily a human involved. In the course of my reporting, ive buy ads on faceb ....
Injured several others. Senator graham was chairing a meeting of the crime and terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on extremist content and russian disinformation online. Representatives from twitter, facebook, and google appeared as part of the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the last president ial election. The hearing lasted about three hours. And we are going to show you some of that now. Starting with Opening Statements from earlier today. Thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle. Ill make an opening statement, senator whitehouse, i think senator feinstein would like to make one, and if senator grassley come, he will certainly be allowed to do this. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformati ....
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 wh ....