Facebook, Google and Twitter are testifying on Capitol Hill About Russian Election Interference
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[QUOTE=Washington Post]Lawyers from Facebook, Google and Twitter are testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon amid mounting political pressure to fully investigate Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and reveal publicly what they find.
It is a rare moment in the political spotlight for companies that, despite large lobbying teams in Washington, generally seek to avoid such public and potentially unpredictable confrontations. A growing number of lawmakers have expressed concern in recent weeks about the Russian online influence campaign and are vowing both to expose what happened and work to prevent a recurrence, through legislation if necessary.
Tuesday's hearing by a Senate judiciary subcommittee comes a day after the prepared testimonies of Facebook and Twitter revealed that the reach of the Russian-connected disinformation campaign on their platforms was much larger than initially reported.
As many as 126 million Facebook users may have seen content produced and circulated by Russian operatives. Twitter said it had discovered that 2,752 accounts controlled by Russians, and more than 36,000 Russian bots tweeted 1.4 million times during the election. And Google disclosed for the first time that it had found 1,108 videos with 43 hours of content related to the Russian effort on YouTube. It also found $4,700 worth of Russian search and display ads.[/QUOTE]
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[media]https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/913034591879024640[/media]
2017: The year the gaslighting never ends.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52842014][media]https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/913034591879024640[/media]
2017: The year the gaslighting never ends.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DT Tweet]anti-Trump hence,Fake News[/QUOTE]
Did he really just imply that if it's anti-Trump, it's fake?
Holy shit
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52842182]Did he really just imply that if it's anti-Trump, it's fake?
Holy shit[/QUOTE]
:bullshit:
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52842182]Did he really just imply that if it's anti-Trump, it's fake?
Holy shit[/QUOTE]
Seeing the History books' comments about the Trump administration in the future will be interesting.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52842182]Did he really just imply that if it's anti-Trump, it's fake?
Holy shit[/QUOTE]
What did you expect, he has been saying things like this since the campaign.
[QUOTE=Coolboy;52842195]What did you expect, he has been saying things like since the campaign.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but usually he says it in a way that his supporters can still say "well he didn't DIRECTLY say that"
It's so direct this time that I'm screenshotting and saving it forever for when that comes up
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;52842203]Can't wait to see rednecks protest the "liberal" information in the history books.[/QUOTE]
that already happens, like my highschool textbook "The American Pageant" was criticized for its negative stance on 19th-century religious revivals (read: realistic stance) and that it often included events that reflected poorly on America (as it should, like the Bay of Pigs iirc)
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52842014][media]https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/913034591879024640[/media]
2017: The year the gaslighting never ends.[/QUOTE]
I think future generations will think we were all literally mentally handicapped during this point in history. If I didn't have any context, and I saw just about any of Trump's tweets, I'd be confused too.
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