Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on the committee that will question Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill tomorrow.
about how much the company spends on security and, last night, telling NBC that in 2016 the social media behemoth just wasn't"looking for these kinds of coordinated information campaigns that now we're aware of."
According to Graphika, a social media analysis firm, a small number of posts were already targeting 2020 candidates, such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. A number of accounts purported to be supporters of President Donald Trump or Senator Bernie Sanders, and around half claimed that they were from swing states, such as Florida.
"They are highly sophisticated [campaigns]. They signal that these nation-states intend to be active in the upcoming elections," Zuckerberg said onlast night."That we've been able to proactively identify them and take them down is somewhat of a signal that our systems are much more advanced now than they have been in the past."
The key issue for lawmakers, however, will be being prepared and staying on task, while interviewing Zuckerberg about interference.
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