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Facebook Doesn't Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram

Facebook Doesn't Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram

Facebook Doesn't Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram

Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer

March 5, 20188m 41s

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For more than a year, Jonathan Albright has served as something of a one-man General Accounting Office for the tech industry. The researcher at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism has dug into the details on how political Twitter trolls manipulate the media, and unearthed an intricate web of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube. Last weekend, while digging through Facebook’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee from last fall, something else caught his eye.

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