WEBVTT 00:01.838 --> 00:03.348 WE’RE EXPECTING THE PRESIDENT TO 00:03.382 --> 00:04.595 ARRIVE IN WISCONSIN SHORTLY. 00:04.596 --> 00:05.743 WE’LL BRING YOU THAT WHEN IT 00:05.744 --> 00:06.075 HAPPENS. 00:06.077 --> 00:07.756 MORE BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. 00:07.790 --> 00:09.349 FACEBOOK JUST ANNOUNCED THEY’VE 00:09.350 --> 00:11.345 TAKEN DOWN A NETWORK OF FAKE 00:11.380 --> 00:11.952 RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS. 00:11.953 --> 00:13.515 AT LEAST 13 OF THE FACEBOOK 00:13.549 --> 00:15.116 ACCOUNTS REMOVED TODAY ARE 00:15.150 --> 00:16.523 LINKED TO THE RUSSIA-BASED 00:16.556 --> 00:19.267 INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY. 00:19.269 --> 00:21.726 THEY ARE THE INFAMOUS AGENCY 00:21.728 --> 00:23.148 MADE FAMOUS BY THE MUELLER 00:23.182 --> 00:23.762 REPORT. 00:23.763 --> 00:25.132 THEY WERE TAGGED WITH 00:25.166 --> 00:26.566 COORDINATING THE DISINFORMATION 00:26.567 --> 00:28.541 CAMPAIGN TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 00:28.576 --> 00:30.167 ELECTION FROM RIPPING OFF THE 00:30.169 --> 00:31.805 EMAILS, COLLATING THEM, ALL OF 00:31.806 --> 00:32.791 THOSE THINGS. 00:32.826 --> 00:34.543 JOINING ME IS NATIONAL SECURITY 00:34.544 --> 00:35.873 CORRESPONDENT KEN DILANIAN. 00:35.908 --> 00:38.431 WHEN I HEAR THE WORDS INTERNET 00:38.432 --> 00:39.859 RESEARCH AGENCY AND FACEBOOK, 00:39.861 --> 00:42.004 YOU THINK, OH, MAN. 00:42.005 --> 00:45.176 HERE WE GO AGAIN. 00:45.210 --> 00:49.520 I GUESS MY CURIOSITY IS, HOW DID 00:49.554 --> 00:51.151 FACEBOOK CATCH THEM,THEM? AND HOW QUICK DID THEY GET 00:51.152 --> 00:56.163 AND HOW QUICK DID THEY GET 00:56.197 --> 00:57.845 CAUGHT? 00:57.879 --> 01:02.993 THE BAD NEWS IS THE AGENCY IS 01:03.027 --> 01:05.855 ALIVE AND WELL, ENTER FEARING IN 01:05.890 --> 01:06.636 OUR ELECTION. 01:06.670 --> 01:08.970 THE GOOD NEWS IN THIS CASE IS 01:09.004 --> 01:11.523 THEY CAUGHT THIS EARLY BASED ON 01:11.524 --> 01:12.988 AN FBI TIP THAT APPROPRIATE 01:12.989 --> 01:14.124 ORIGINATED WITH THE NATIONAL 01:14.125 --> 01:15.481 SECURITY AGENCY. 01:15.482 --> 01:18.280 THIS FAKE NETWORK GOT VERY 01:18.315 --> 01:19.860 LITTLE TRACTIONER WE’RE ONLY 01:19.894 --> 01:22.043 TALKING ABOUT 13 FACEBOOK PAGES, 01:22.078 --> 01:25.033 A COUPLE HUNDRED FOLLOWERS. 01:25.066 --> 01:26.345 WHAT FACEBOOK’S TOP 01:26.380 --> 01:27.746 CYBER-OFFICIAL SAID IS THE 01:27.748 --> 01:29.993 RUSSIANS HAVE HAD TO CHANGE 01:30.027 --> 01:31.266 THEIR TACTICS, BEING MORE 01:31.300 --> 01:31.961 STEALTHY. 01:31.995 --> 01:35.705 THE NSA AND FBI IS LOOKING FOR 01:35.707 --> 01:38.235 THEM, FACEBOOK IS, TWITTER IS. 01:38.236 --> 01:40.154 BY BECOMING MORE STEALTHY, IT 01:40.188 --> 01:41.653 LIMITS THEIR AUDIENCE AND 01:41.688 --> 01:42.843 THEY’RE NOT BREAKING THROUGH. 01:42.877 --> 01:44.708 THAT’S THE GOOD NEWS. 01:44.743 --> 01:47.561 THE BAD NEWS IS HE TOLD ME HE 01:47.562 --> 01:49.309 EXPECTS SOME KIND OF OCTOBER 01:49.344 --> 01:50.310 SURPRISE, A HACK-AND-DUMP 01:50.345 --> 01:51.946 OPERATIONS BY THE RUSSIANS, 01:51.947 --> 01:53.135 BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT BREAKING 01:53.136 --> 01:54.867 THROUGH, AND THEY ARE STILL VERY 01:54.901 --> 01:56.144 MUCH TRYING TO INTERFERE IN OUR 01:56.145 --> 01:57.852 ELECTION. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN DETERRED BY 01:57.886 --> 02:01.963 THEY HAVE NOT BEEN DETERRED BY 02:01.964 --> 02:07.367 THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, TODD 02:07.401 --> 02:11.581 THE IMPLICATION HERE IS THEY 02:11.583 --> 02:14.142 WERE RECRUITING AMERICANS TO 02:14.177 --> 02:15.537 WRITE THEIR STORIES. 02:15.538 --> 02:17.911 THEY WERE USING RUSSIANS -- 02:17.912 --> 02:20.490 >> I THINK IT WAS MORE BRITISH 02:20.492 --> 02:20.763 FREELANCER 02:20.798 --> 02:22.484 FREELANCER, BUT THAT’S RIGHT, 02:22.518 --> 02:24.492 THEY PAID UNWITTING FREELANCE 02:24.493 --> 02:27.044 JOURNALISTS TO CREATE POSTS. 02:27.079 --> 02:30.628 IN THIS CASE FAR LEFT CONTENT, 02:30.662 --> 02:32.798 SOME OF IT CRITICAL, DESIGNED TO 02:32.799 --> 02:35.411 DROP LEFT-WING PEOPLE AWAY FROM 02:35.413 --> 02:37.909 THE MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 02:37.910 --> 02:41.663 IT WAS A HARKENING BACK TO THE