been online on twitter this milking this for all it's worth on twitter. the hash tag meal meal gate. of course being the drink the password drink mentioned in the email exchange. you know they're having a good laugh on twitter at the bill these days and what small build while admitting that the e-mail exchange is fake they still trying to defend themselves they saying that you know so they tried to grasping at straws saying that this e-mail exchange originated from the s.p.d. servers and whatnot but. a good laugh at google around but the right guy steve speaking to me earlier well i also talked to moderates hurt in an editor out titanic magazine who came up with the prank he say's the news builds weak spots. work with the same. methods as built so we knew how to think alike and build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie like in the spine movie and we had a good feeling that this would work especially with bill as they already ran a campaign against the s.p.d. and there seems to be no election and the past years where there wa

twitter is an open platform. our api can be used by universities and academics around the world and it is. unfrntsly, that doesn't give you the full picture. in some cases, people have identified accounts as suspected bots, which have later been identified as real people. one of the things we do, we work with academics closely on asking people to bear in mind when they make assertions about the level of activity on twitter that there may be cases where those assertions are based on very active twitter users who are real people own not bots. one of the dangers of using activity as a metric to identify bots is you may misidentify prolific tweeters who are human. so that's a benefit. researchers can use our platform. it's a challenge for us. the researchers can't see the defensive mechanisms and the user data we can. >> there's been plenty of analysis done looking at characteristics of suspicious bot activity. twitter also knows where accounts are being operated from. therefore, you could easily detect the creation

quote twitter says no. hundreds of twitter employees are not reading your tms. another headline. twitter denies claims. they are reading your tms. techcrunch. twitter hits back again at claims that it plays on monitoring dm's. so the media just blindly reporting what they're being told on the record. when a dozen engineers off the regular same exact opposite. and this is my favorite comic. buzzfeed reported charlie one a real quote - twitter disputes the claim from o'keefe's video today. well it wasn't my claim. [laughter] it was the senior network security engineer, not a low level it guy. the senior network security engineer is said and i quote - the senior network security are not o'keefe quote - we have hundreds of engineers at twitter who look at -- i did not say that. [laughter] i did not create the quote. but o'keefe claims and it is just, journalism has become a kind of perversion. it's become a joke. and there was an interview with jordan peterson. i don't know if you've seen it, you should watch it. it has 5 million views on youtube and he expresses a false dichotomy. p

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congress is investigating how the russians used facebook twitter and google to wage information warfare and a special counsel is looking into whether the russians in the trump campaign actually colluded in their digital strategies. there is also growing concern that the business models and algorithms that drive social media companies are fueling extreme partisanship and opening up the floodgates to phony news but america isn't alone challenges to democracy posed by social media also surfaced last year in european elections we begin there in the second part of our investigation into why social media platforms are such powerful tools for those who want to spread propaganda and disinform ation we look into the ways automated accounts are known as bots are deployed by russians in the far right to manipulate the public the use of social media to wage information warfare was perfected by the kremlin in the baltic states in ukraine according to the nato strata com center of excellence in lockyer genocide says its director saraf excellence is researching the information confrontation common to

been online on twitter this milking this for all it's worth on twitter. the hash tag meal meal gate. ginger of course being the drink the password drink mentioned in the email exchange . you know they're having a good laugh on twitter bill these days and what small bills while admitting that the e-mail exchange is fake they're still trying to defend themselves saying that you know they tried to grasping at straws saying that this e-mail exchange originated from the s.p.d. servers and what not but a good laugh had google around. for more on the story i'm very happy to say that we're joined live on the program by moritz and editor are titanic magazine who as we just heard came up with the idea for their prank you very welcome. did you ever imagine that the prank would work you know this is one of the most read if not the most read newspaper in germany yet they run your story without a lot of fact checking yes like you said build is a tabloid magazine. we turn it over to record magazine we worked with the same. methods as built so we knew how to finkel i can

you large number of twitter users in the u.s. are seeing their accounts blocked and there is speculation that this could be linked to the social networks crackdown on supposedly russian bot. how soon will be trending parents thousands have accounts will receive the same passage to the same moment to provide and then a text through cation code. it's enough to know what most value is simply because i'm conservative sixpence and if chrissy i wonder how many votes i'm wrong worse donald trump must tonight conservative twitter users are accusing twitter of intentionally restricting or blocking right leaning voices and they're even holding the company responsible for missing followers calling it a great twitter purge and some famous users have even been blocked like mikes are no vision of the son of michael flynn and it's pretty widespread the hashtag twitter lockout has even been trending on social media but no official comments from twitter as yet some people online think that it could be a purge of so-called russian bot accounts is

been online on twitter this milking this for all it's worth on twitter. the hash tag meal meal gate. ginger of course being the drink the password drink mentioned in the email exchange . you know they're having a good laugh on twitter bill these days and what small bills while admitting that the e-mail exchange is fake they're still trying to defend themselves saying that you know they're trying to grasping at straws saying that this e-mail exchange originated from the s.p.d. servers and whatnot but. a good laugh at google around but they've been caught oh it's all right r.t.s. miraculously it brings us right up to date on that story think you. know some people on twitter in the us are seeing their accounts blocked and their list of followers deleted twitter has allegedly branded some people with conservative views as bots. how soon will be trending apparently thousands of accounts all received the same mass which are the same moment to provide and then a text through. to not two thousand fully was simply because i'm conservative six please move me crissy

, twitter could gain more share. the dollar changes have increased the value of twitter in the eyes of holders. in terms of the eyes of an acquirer, they have to think about whether you are an enterprise company. is this consumer data or advertising data relevant are you? one pick up i will point out is the fact twitter shares are up more than 60% in the past six months. on today's results, an enterprise value of upwards of seven times the estimate for revenue this next year. are a lot of very rich companies out there. whether they think twitter at this valuation is swallowable, is questionable. there has been exuberance over this surprise profit they posted. whether that comes down is something anyone considering taking over this company will be watching. emily: an interesting point, facebook is focusing more on friends and family. twitter which has such an important niche in real-time news, has an advantage. david: may be twitter is where you get mass-market advertising like you used to on tv, or maybe you still do

by twitter to the media, george or broha y. quote in "american pravda" and i do believe one day this book may be required reading in various journalism schools, orwell said something you've probably all heard, journalism is printing something that nobody else wants printed and everything else is public relations. i call her modern media the political marketing industry. lax and investigative edge it was typical and 20 century. twitter responded to her video by saying we do not practically reviewed direct messages. these are mainstream media outlets like "buzzfeed" techcrunch quote twitterer says no. hundreds of twitter employees are not reading your dm's. twitter denies claims they are reading your dm's. techcrunch with this amazing headline quote twitter -- so the media is blindly reporting what they are being told on the record win a dozen engineers off the record are saying the exact opposite and my favorite media comment from the twitter investigation. "buzzfeed" reporter charlie warner wrote quote twittered disputes the cl

that's not for twitter, people. at the very least, that deserves a tumblr post. ♪ [hip-hop music] [upbeat music] ♪ [cheers and applause] - let's talk for a moment about the twitter. it's a wonderful invention, but we have learned that if you ever tweet something that offends too many people, you could get fired from your job, or you could become president. high risk, very high reward. and once again, there's a tweet that's blowing up the news. - a controversy about espn host jemele hill. - jemele hill went on a twitter rampage. - jemele hill came under fire this week after she tweeted on monday that president donald trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists. - espn responded with a statement. "the comments on twitter from jemele hill "regarding the president do not represent the position of espn. "we have addressed this with jemele, and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate." - wow, this is the biggest controversy in sports since the phillie phanatic se

for some time now twitter has been helping the u.s. government catch these magical russian bots who somehow manage to sway elections and they've detected a massive number of them let's look back at a project veritas investigation for an idea and how they judge who's a russian voter. goes. like. this probably oh. oh good for you. now the question is if twitter also start restricting leftwing voices who are critical of the u.s. government that of course remains to be seen for the record that slip of the tongue with only fake news people jumping on this one you are not behind that outage earth here yeah good or i just joking ok no leave new bit of good news final few days of the winter olympics to world records were broken in the space of just fifty minutes by russian athletes at the winter olympics in south korea earlier the first was set by a figure skating. in the women's short program her score was then topped by a teammate alina's a get over the details of it all from. the younger russian figure skater had been hot on the heels of he

continues twitter is believed to have blocked. its belonging to conservative america. plus a medal winning russian colonel who tested positive for a bomb the substance of the winter olympics the signs not to take his case to. court we discover. just a few moments into our brand new day here in moscow thursday february twenty second welcome to our to international story german tabloid newspaper billed publish what if thoughts was leaked evidence of the bees of a russian troll factory but the lead turned out to be far from concrete and spoke to me earlier. bild thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here is the meat of it build the published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's a huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the no grow cold campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering th

coming up, we talk to the man used to run twitter and talk about gender inequality and tech and twitters turn around. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: over the last week or more, we have been examining the male-dominated culture in tech, and my next guest is well aware of the problem. you get in my new book, "brotopia: breaking up the boy'' club of silicon valley." he has made it his mission to hire as many women as men, and i would like to welcome former twitter ceo, great to have you back on the show. great to be back, i was hoping you would call me abigail. [laughter] going. people tuning in our going, what? when you left twitter and start chorus, you approached hiring differently than most ceos and said i'm not going to why did youypg d do that? 50% acrossto keep it all engineering, because when you fall behind, which is common knowledge based on gender and diversity studies at comes out from all of these companies -- once you get behind on things like gender diversity in your engineering team, it becomes frankly impossible to catch up. have women engineers interviewing at the company a

their news from twitter. 74% of people on twitter are getting their news from the air. so big picture, in the united states we have a record high in terms of the number of people getting their news from social media, whether people are trust in the news is a different question, but we are not number one in the world. we are number one in terms of the percentage of our older population getting their news on social media and we are number two, excuse me, for getting news online. that is all courtesy of view. the other thing that struck me in this research was that i said earlier, we are not number one in the world for the percentage of people who get their news from social media. ahead of us in terms of advanced industrialized economies, south korea, canada, australia and sweden all have higher percentages of population getting getting their news from social media. south korea 20% more south koreans and americans are using social media several times a day. that is shocking to me. amongst emerging and developing countries, following countries more people get their news on

twitter . facebook twitter it's a very good way for communication it has no power control for maybe one it looks like the media like the t.v. i want to get some t.v. or whatever the are controlling everything now we could if you're going to i just make a capsule individual picture i just uploaded very little actual protester cordie on twitter. but the public street and the personal feeling about them is completely different. i. let people share ideas and me and share photos and share videos and shape the media and shape their own narratives. only activists only people who wanted to achieve social change use a technology that it's very easy to get rid of so in the case of text mob it was easy to eventually block and shut it down because people only used it at protests but when people used twitter of protests twitter got used for lots of other things . to transform the world in the way we make social change we need the tools of social change be used enables everyday lives for things that have not

and the hunt for russian bots continues twitter is believed to have blocked nearly a thousand accounts belonging to conservative americans. plus a medal winning russian curler who tested positive for a banned substance at the winter olympics decides not to take his case to sports highest court. or broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is art international and john thompson the glad to have you with us the german tabloid newspaper built has published what it claimed was leaked evidence of a russian troll farm or comments. bild thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here is the meat of it build the published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's a huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the no grow cold campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under

young people -- children use twitter. i use twitter. i think i'm addicted. my wife thinks i'm addicted. and one of the reasons why you're so effective is because people are addicted. i mean, the analogy is smoking. that doesn't mean that we can't regulate and take appropriate steps to manage it. my question, do you agree with me that twitter is addictive? >> in a personal capacity, i'm able to go several days without tweeting. >> how many days in a year? >> well, it's public. you can check. >> i'm not -- >> no, it's an incredibly important question. we're working with the secretary of state for health, who's established a working group. we're working with dcms on an internet safety strategy. these questions are very, very important. they're questions that tie into digital literacy, of how do we equip young people to understand how the world is around them and how to make assessments as to the information. i think in terms of those sort of questions, that's where academics are best placed. we as an industry have to work with them. >> it is addictive, so. >> i

twitter cracking down on bots. thank you both. >>> to the koch brothers going amazon and other companies. digital ad campaign here called a tax break n amazon receives as sweetheart deals that are unfair to taxpayers. to exyom.cording it's on facebook and twitter we talk to the c.e.o. of a sin text firm that has a new round of funding. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: apple in talks to buy directly frombalt miners, it is one of the largest users, used for the batteries in its gadgets. apple wants to make sure it has key battery the ingredient amid the fear of a shortage driven by the electric car build a canadian based advisor raised $51 million from power group. l the start up managing 65,000 in gers with room to grow sin tech. mike c.e.o. of wealth simple joins us. target audience is millennials, how does the cater to them. yep. our clientele are young professionals that are looking a different financial service than parents and grandparents, where people were xcited investing on relationships. clients are looking f

and it's all part of what they call a great twitter purge now the hash tag twitter lockdown has been a trending on social media and they say that twitter is intentionally targeting people on the right but twitter is yet to give a statement i know some people online think that it could be a purge of so-called russian bought accounts as this all comes amid the search of the russian troll farm that's being blamed for sowing discord in the u.s. and swaying the election and to clarify that's thirteen people well according to muller that is but what's really whole areas is that there are now claims that real people were locked out of their accounts and we're looking into into this but it's not really that surprising in fact when twitter launched its first wave of purges we found an american woman whose account was suspended because a twitter employee thought she was a russian bot. and on twitter since two thousand and ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little sharp they were actually cues in me being a russian operative if you're being with. this. that i was somehow wor

i've spoken to many people on background who work at twitter or used to work at twitter to -- who describe it as a whack-a-mole problem. the moment twitter changes algorithms to address spam and bots, we see a new type of pattern emerge. that's the challenge that they are up against. they have made steps for transparency. they're starting a center for transparency in political ads. they said in the 2018 elections, they will be working with candidates closely to make sure to try to keep it as free from russian meddling as possible. emily: tara, when you hear that twitter is doing all that it can, would you agree? do you think twitter can be doing more with the financial resources and power it has? tara: i think you hear that rhetoric coming out of all the three big players, twitter, facebook, and google. you hear them repeatedly claim that they do all that they can. if you look at these companies and the amount of money and the size of these companies, they are sort of technical wizards. they are able to do a lot with your data when they want to do a lot with your data, and i think they can

i continued and moved on to twitter. it has been a charmed moment for twitter. we got his take. >> jack has been very carefully and thoughtfully filling the .anks for the past few years there was a lot of news about executive departures in 2016. but at the same time, jack was doing a great job of bringing in people to fill those positions. leslie has done a world-class job. i don't know him personally but everyone speaks highly of him. anthony is world-class, he is a great human being. he will be an extraordinary ceo. i am really excited for him. but jack has done a great job of building the bench over there. do you think the turnaround is long-term or is this just a short-term thing? >> twitter is one of the most important platforms and mediums in the world. i have every belief and hope that it will continue to be an independent company and thrive. one of the many things i adore about jack is that he is a very calm and patient and thoughtful leader. that is exactly what you want in the overlong course of the future. this is how they will steer the ship and buil

twitter denies claims that they are reading the direct messages, tech crunch, twitter hits back again at the claims that its employees comes with th to the s blindly reporting what they are being told on the record and when a dozen engineers off the record are saying the opposite and this is my favorite media comment from the investigation, does feed reporter charlie warner wrote or disputes the tws the claim from the video today. it wasn't my claim. [laughter] it was the network security engineer. the senior network security engineer who said, and i quote, we have hundreds of engineers who look at these pics. i didn't say that. i didn't create this quote, but journalism has become the kind of perversion. in this interview with jordan peterson i don't know if you have seen it coming you should watch it. it has 5 million views on youtube and he exposes false dichotomies creating false narratives and it has become a joke. the only way that we can circumvent the joke is through the power of cinema that is the latin word for truth, to expose the imagery of our society and images of the po

i have spoken with people who work at twitter or worked at twitter who described it as a whack-a-mole proble. we see a new pattern emerge, and that is the pattern they are up against. have made stuff for transparency and are starting and add transparency program for .he 28th elections they they are trying to make sure they keep it as clear of russian meddling as they coan? emily: the you agree, or do you think twitter can do more? twitter, facebook, google, you hear them repeatedly saying they are doing all they can, but if you look at his companies and the amount of money in the companies, they are technical wizards. they are able to do a lot with your data when they want to do a lot with your data, and i think they can do a lot more with these problems from terrorism to russian meddling to other nefarious foreign actors that are trying to be meddling in various ways as well, particularly when the line is being crossed and laws are potentially being violated, which is what is happening in terms of at buying. if they don't fix that, that will continue to be a violation of the real wor

no twitter user is above the twitter rules. as we action accounts on any given moment, we are looking whether they are trying to do satire or humor, even if it is not successful. we also recognize that world leaders do have a special voice and it is in the public interest for their constituents to hear from them. >> i don't think this was humor. i don't think the result -- if you look at what cnn reporters have said since this, there is more violence towards them. there is more animosity towards them. i think you need to look at it in the whole context. i would encourage all the companies at this table to take threats to journalists very seriously. i am extremely concerned with any threats of violence based reporting the president finds disagreeable, with our president calling u.s. media outlets the enemy of the people. it is up to all of us to safeguard the first amendment. thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator udall. senator tester? >> thank you for having this hearing. i want to thank the witnesses today.

the ad is running on facebook and twitter. coming up, we will talk to the ceo of a fast-growing syntax .irm based in toronto this is bloomberg. ♪ to buyapple is in talks long-term supplies of cobalt directly from miners for the first time, people familiar with the matter said. apple wants to ensure it has enough of the key battery ingredient amid industry fears of a shortage driven by the electric car boom. advisorsbased robo raised money and its funding round. the start of manages about 50,000 clients with room to grow. joining us, the ceo of wealthsimple. your target audience is millennials. how does the product cater directly to them? >> yeah, so, our clientele are typically young professionals looking for a different sort of investment service then maybe their parents or grandparents were historically, people were excited about investing based on relationships, our clients are looking for something that is really easy to use. you can sign up online, download our mobile app, and get started in a couple of minutes, and the

ohat to me is a big boon t twitter. twitter has sort of always been about that. working closely with media companies, this is the bull's of the world -- pulse of the world. twitter can feel like they are the single distribution vehicle these media companies. that is a huge boost for twitter and its relationship with content providers. emily: that was dick costolo, former twitter ceo. bloomberg operates a global news network on twitter called tick-tock. next we would hear from heather bellini. her take on performance from 2018 ahead. later this hour we will speak a ceo about the cyberattack that has already plagued the olympics. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: the ceo of salesforce says a movement is coming at facebook and it will not be pretty. he said that unilever's recent threat to pull advertisements from the social media giant is just the start of a growing backlash against facebook. --.ays i posed this question taunus guest,-- to our next heather bellini. this?ow important is a chiefnk if you are marketing officer, you want to make sure that your protecti

twitter and youtube all mentioned. that is because the tech companies have a number of problems on their hands. afterts, which came out the florida shooting, with divisive rhetoric and fake news, conspiracy theories. this is not new. but the concern is that the strategy will be taken again in the midterm elections and also by terrorist organizations on this platform. i think what we are seeing is another issue of a tragic school shooting, they are trying to exploit and a saw the ability to do so, despite reforms that have been made. emily: walk us through this. >> i spoke to the researcher of the hamilton project that has been tracking this. he says it is almost exactly the same as what happened in vegas. day one, the bots are re-tweeting breaking news. day two, they are trading -- tweeting implications of the most extreme and divisive issues and opinions on gun-control. by day three, this is when they start to promote conspiracy theories. and they want to start to destabilize american trust in public institutions, say

accounts meanwhile a london times headline says twitter admits russian trolls posted about bridget the first paragraph then reveals there were only forty nine suspicious accounts radio talk show host of john gaunt told us the meddling claims may be just a wild goose chase. this is a farce these m.p.'s went all the way to washington to question didn't understand how the internet works they could have got them on a skype call and question the aides fossil crew on issue a waste of my taxpayers' money and it's very very annoying it's a joke in an almost strangled route fashion following questions and one of the waiting to listen to the answers you know well i don't think the british public care they know why people voted for breakfast let's just get over it and accept democracy that does it for me my colleague colin bray will be in about thirty five minutes with a full look at your news you're watching arts international glad to have you with us. it's in american interests to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the

>> okay. >> twitter. >> let's start with the twitter question. completely agree with you that it's been overwhelmingly on twitter that he has been active in social media, and again, a missed opportunity to use these other platforms to reach the people who never go on to white house.gov, and that to me -- i understand him wanting to do things differently than obama, and rolling back the obama agenda, but there were tactics that obama used that it think trump would be wise to follow up on. for example, on the white house web site, the obama administration had a individualolgrapher that followed the president everywhere, and had behind the scenes videos, and photos and thing they'd would post on this white house blog, and they were all kinds of people who would write on the white house blog who were various surrogate ford different policiesing. somebody from the labor department rite writhing about unemployment, and gave reports a place to go, people too share things and that seems to have stopped. i went on the white house web site and couldn't fin

twitter. it has been a charmed moment for twitter lately. its first row profit in latest earnings results. he ran the social media platform from 2010-2015 and we got his take. dick: jack has been backfilling the ranks. -- ranks of the management team over the past few years, since there was a lot of news about 2015. executive departures in 2016, same time jack was doing a great job of bringing in people to fill those positions. the cfo from american express has done well. the new cfo, everybody speaks very highly of him. same with folks on the product team and engineering team. anthony is world-class, he is going to be an extraordinary ceo. i am really excited for him. jack has done a great job of going the bench and anthony did a great job with jack bringing d to keep thee financial house in order. emily: do you think the turnaround is long-term or is it just a short-term thing? dick: twitter is one of the most important mediums in the world. i have every believe in the world that it will continue to be an independent company and thrive. on

trading up by almost twenty five percent while in this market environment at the end of the session twitter still gained a good twelve percent in value and yes for the very first time in the culprits in the company's history they shift a profit possibly partly because they doubled the character limits on their tweed if they also went deeper into video and all of that seemed to work out nicely for twitter so the one bright spot on wall street in stormy there is this session ok at least there was that one bright spot against quarter thank you very much. to trade now and fresh data out today germany's trading partners constantly complain about its height surplus saying it causes economic imbalances the country chips out a lot more than it buys in but exports have reached a record high yet again hitting one point three trillion euros worth of audi cars i need to shoes and back spears to name just a few but that's not the whole story imports increased as well to just over a trillion euros narrowing germany's notorious trade surplus to two hundred forty five billion euro. and you know your countr

long facebook twitter today in touch follow us. everyone my name is made by you better known as million. cars devalued towards each shallow. all sorts of events stories. updates tournaments and i could go on for hours with these huge chunks about it you should better check it out yourself the only. place. you're living in the digital age coming up creepy story. intrigues. and shapes in love. but first many stars you tube videos with kids are a big hit the advertising industry wants to cash in on the influence of young you tube or who hold. it's way over their young audiences. just a regular afternoon with the family the only difference everything's being filmed. right. now. and catalina make five videos per week and upload them to their you tube channel and leon family and fun named after their two kids and. it has some one hundred ten thousand subscribers. who was her idea really. and they were always watching you tube and then she asked if we could make a video. so i said sure. and she just really wanted to see our video up on yo

twitter is a find out what's going on now medium. actually an incredibly powerful news network they're finally embracing that instead of saying we're going to be next facebook, they're changing the model to video advertise clg advertising which is much stronger they made good product improvements it is happening but not quickly. at least for our side on business insider, we're seeing a lot of incremental improvements. >> erin, is this a twitter specific story or a broader trend in social media and advertisers are putting more dollars here >> in general, social media is doing better and across the board internet industries are one of the highest growth rates within technology. it is good i think twitter should send a massive thank you basket to trump. but, look, we don't own it i still think there is a lot of volatility and things they need to, would out. it's sleen smaow and small incrl improvements >> way had snap yesterday and twitter today. there is an argument to be made that they're making progress in terms of both of them appea

posts and twitter messages. so twitter, iact, is a huge part of this problem here. >> brangham: kellyanne conway and the white house havethsaid wasn't about a hashtag on twitter. this was a vote in the houseinus lligence committee. they're the onesen who released this memo. what is the evidence that exists, if any, that this was some coordinated campaign by non-american actors? >> so russia in the cold war, it was siet, of course, including east germany and others' information operation, active measureswas the term of art, always exploit exist co conflic. they employment existing cracks in ourystem and exacerbate the cracks and drive wedges into them. >> reporter: so some question as who r to whether "black lives matter" were also attacked by the bots. >> not just bots but sometimes operators and contractors. operators had a history of exacerbating racial tensions. they would pose ase tue clucks qulan and sometimes american activists. >> twitter refuses to make the distinction and refuses to point out abuse, the

and analysts are encouraging that twitter haas has plenty of room togroh. >> the advantage twitter has from an ad dollars perspective the same as snap. these companies are tisn. the 100th the size of goinge. they can grow easily withoump g into the goliaths like facebook and google. >> as for the botshat have drawn criticism during the 2016 presidenal election, dorsey says they are trying to direct users to credible accous and content. julia boorstin in los angeles. >>> up next, what cbs is doing with its tax reform windfall. >>> cbs health is number seven in the fortune 500. a join in a fast changing industry, and it wants to get even bigger. it plans to buy the insurer aetna. now that's a big deal. and so were i earnings, which nearly doubcod. better thas looks at cvs's strategy. > they saw a $1.5 billion benefit from tax reform, exutax clueding t breaks profits were driven by the phaacy benefits business which offset continued weakness at its stores. they intend the plow it back into the business ult putting a chunk into worker benefits. starting pay will rise matching competitors l

the way it works is that divinia creates fake accounts on twitter and these bots can then be automated to follow retreat even like to be news clients posts but this is not just about popularity for popularity sake for celebrities and other so-called online influences more followers means more money according to the data company captivate an influencer with a million followers can actually earn twenty thousand dollars for a single tweet promoting a brand or product sure but how widespread a problem are we talking about here and what if anything is being done to fix it what's become clear is that the sale and use of twitter bots is now pretty common the times report quoted estimates putting the percentage of fake twitter accounts as high as fifteen percent and that dividing itself was sold more than two hundred million followers in total but the company's founder does deny his company has actually sold any fake photos among them is customers named in the investigation are a c.n.n. contributor hilary rosen and an editor at the chinese state run news agency to walk us through what's being

changing their tactics much faster than twitter can keep up. i spoke to some who used to work there who describe it as a whack-a-mole problem. that's the challenge that they are up against. they have made steps for transparency. they're standing an advertisement -- they are starting an advertisement transparency center. they are going to try to keep it as free from russian meddling as possible. >> when you hear that twitter is doing all that it can come do you agree -- can it, do you do you agree? theseyou look at companies and the amount of money and the size of these companies they are sort of technical wizards. they are able to do a lot with your data when they want to do a lot with your data, and i think they can address some of these problems. particularly when the line is been crossed, and i would argue that laws are being violated, in terms of what was happening with ad buying. companiesink the tech are going to have the luxury any longer of being able to operate in this free space where laws are potentially been violated -- being violat