Yeah, technology.

What is it all about?

Facebook can say we're not going to allow people to influence elections,

but what about genuinely influencing the culture of countries?

Because by doing that, you are actually trying to influence culture,

by influencing culture, you're influencing politics.

So Facebook's remit for fake news has to be far wider than attempts to

ultra-elections.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley. This is your bonus episode for the week. So we have

brought on Mike Harris for the show and Mike is the founder of 89 Up,

which is a communications agency in London that is up to all kinds of interesting stuff,

including tracking what Russia and other bad guys are up to on the internet.

Now, I interviewed Mike because this week, 89 up published some really interesting research,

and what they did is they focused in on one website, single website,

which has an anonymous owner, anonymous staff, unlocatable head office.

He had somehow, through the magic of social media, reached more than 10 million Brits,

with a very strong pro-Brexit,

anti-remain message, news articles, etc.

And what's so interesting here is that this was just days after Facebook unveiled its latest crackdown on political ads.

So putting in all these kind of guardrails like requiring anybody who

plays a political ad to reveal their identity, a valid UK address, how much they paid, etc.

And this website, mainstream network, as it's called, seems to be very much the type of operation that Facebook would be trying to stamp out.

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