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Google Investigates Facebook's Russian Political Operatives, Will Address Congressmen (recode.net)
An anonymous reader quotes Recode:
Facebook has shared some details about the Russian-operated profiles it discovered on its platform with Google, as the search giant -- with the rest of the tech industry -- continues to probe the extent to which Kremlin-backed misinformation spread through their websites during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It is unclear if Google has found any suspicious ads or other content after evaluating Facebook's data, an exchange of intel confirmed to Recode today by three sources familiar with the matter. At the very least, Google's investigation appears to be much broader in scope than a similar one by Twitter, which had drawn the ire of Congress for appearing to be incomplete. A Google spokesperson declined to comment for this story, as did a Facebook rep.
For now, though, Google is slated to deliver a private briefing to U.S. lawmakers studying Russia's political tactics in the coming weeks, additional sources told Recode. A date does not appear to have been set. And the search-and-advertising giant has been asked to join Facebook and Twitter at two upcoming hearings in the House and Senate where the industry will face questions -- out in the open -- about its safeguards against Russian political interference in the future.
For now, though, Google is slated to deliver a private briefing to U.S. lawmakers studying Russia's political tactics in the coming weeks, additional sources told Recode. A date does not appear to have been set. And the search-and-advertising giant has been asked to join Facebook and Twitter at two upcoming hearings in the House and Senate where the industry will face questions -- out in the open -- about its safeguards against Russian political interference in the future.
HRC lost because she and her team run a terrible campaign. They did not _fight_ for battleground states, allowing Trump to win a number of them by a razor thin margin, and their discourse left out the concerns of the worker class of America.
But now they place the blame on anyone except themselves. Dems are loving it because, besides holding a gun to Trump's head, by spinning the Russiagate story, they're delaying the day of reckoning within their own party when the voters will finally see that the Dems are a party of corporate interests and urban coastal elitists who are flying in the skies. Heads will have to roll eventually.