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Even more. is that right? you watch these videos. a lot of them are making points with real plerns. we know that is what they do. i guess what s interesting about this program is that we have seen the coverse russian trolls in 2016. we know of the over russia etcetera that s operating here in the u.s. these were sort of in a gray area. they weren t necessarily hiding. ? they wrn really hiding but kind of hiegd. yes. if you were to start googling the pages you could quickly sort of work it back to see. ....
Distracted by personal projects and passed off security and policy decisions to subordinates, according to current and former executives. drawing on interviews with more than 50, that s 5-0 people, the times says problems began way back in december, 2015, when a post by then-candidate donald trump about a muslim ban prompted a conversation about hate speech. and whether trump s post violated facebook s terms of service. well, facebook s d.c. rep reportedly feared a conservative backlash, telling the company leadership, quote, don t poke the bear. the new york times reports that zuckerberg and sandberg were basically absent from that all-important debate. trump s posts stayed up, and after that, it seemed the floodgates were wide open. by the spring of 2016, facebook was reportedly finding signs that they were being infiltrated by russian trolls, but they didn t disclose what they were finding. this morning, the company defended its actions at the ....
So complicated. facebook has tried to consolidate their setting to one page to make it easier, but even still if you have a variety of accounts connected to that facebook log-in, it just gets more and more complicated. so you really have to be on top of your privacy as a consumer these days. and it is so very challenging. the announcement is the latest issue for mark zuckerberg s company. it has struggled with securities breaches. there was cambridge analytica, russian trolls, now this. facebook says that it is investing heavily in security going forward and increasing the number of people from 10,000 to 20,000 working on securities. that sounds like a lot, bruh b does a company even that large stay ahead of attacks? can they? that is a good question. it is incredibly complicated given the size and scale of a company like facebook nowadays. there are a variety of ways to do that both internal to the company and external. ....
Military invasion of georgia. then the real significant sign was in the 2014 conflict with ukraine. and there, the russian, in particular the military intelligence agency, the gru, really started to use information warfare in a big way in the leadup to their annexation of crimea. there were proposals circulated around the obama administration that didn t make it up to the cabinet or the presidency because in the post-9/11 world, the security establishment in the united states was worried according to your article about the legal peril of snooping on social media and inadvertently interfering with americans communications. the state department created a small team to tweet messages about ukraine but they were vastly outnumbered by russian trolls. some of the stuff the article talks about indicates we didn t ....