This morning, the Senate Intel committee heard from top experts on social media manipulation and foreign influence operations like the one we saw during the 2016 election.
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Much of the initial focus was on paid advertisements. But it quickly became clear that ads represented a tiny percentage of IRA activity – compared to the hundreds of thousands of free Facebook and Instagram posts, pages & groups, and millions of tweets from IRA-backed accounts.
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Today, it is becoming clearer that activity represents just a small fraction of the total Russian effort on social media.
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I’m also concerned that the U.S. government is not well positioned to detect, track, or counter these types of influence operations on social media.
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But all the evidence the Senate Intelligence Committee has seen to date suggests that the platform companies – namely, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, and YouTube – still have a lot of work to do.
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Before I went into public service, I spent more than 20 years in the tech business. I have tremendous respect for these companies and what they represent. When they are at their best, they are a symbol of what this country does best: innovation, job creation, changing the world.
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I’ve been hard on them because I know they can do better to protect our democracy. They have the creativity, expertise, resources, and technological capability to get ahead of these malicious actors.
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That’s why we will be hosting senior executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google for a hearing on September 5th. To hear the plans they have in place, to press them to do more, and to work together to address this challenge.
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Today we focused on what happened in 2016 and what is happening now, but Russian active measures have revealed a dark underbelly of the social media ecosystem.
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These same tools that spread misinformation can negatively affect other aspects of our lives. I think we need to start pushing ourselves beyond just recognizing the problem and start to push actual policy ideas forward.
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@danielorourke81 All the while the@gop refuses to tamp down on Russian tampering. -
Even voting to zero out the budget for election security.
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Mark, I truly appreciate your efforts. I know there are many with and behind you, but your Stalwart Progress, Trust, and Love for us shines brightly, Brother. “Vaya con Dios”
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So far there is zero evidence that the IRA's commercial spam campaign had anything to do with "Russian active measures".
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Really? You don't think it had anything to do with our crooked-ass unrepresentative system that everybody hates?
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LULZ. What you are saying is a few pennies of truth outshines a billion dollarin campaign spending, plus sycophantic, adoring media coverage? Sounds totally legit.pic.twitter.com/ublU0ouPCs
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Yep....and people get FURIOUS with me when I nitpick over whether things posted are reliable or not....Everyone should be skeptical of everything they see on social media.
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Because ur society is not what u make it out to be...it is a fascist system (roots, core and elites)...people know there is something wrong and russia was always on the right side of history...go learn history
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