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From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara. The reason all these, the Russians were

able to abuse these platforms so much, this wasn't hacking. This wasn't some secret and

a fairies Russian plot to sneak into Facebook and Guam itself onto its servers. They were

customers of Facebook. They were customers of Twitter. They were customers of YouTube.

They used the systems as they were designed. That's Karis Swisher. She's the editor at

large of Recode, the host of the Recode D-code podcast, and a contributing opinion writer

for The New York Times. I speak with her about the future of Facebook, why Mark Zuckerberg

is unfyriable, and whether Silicon Valley is in for a reckoning. That's coming up. Stay

tuned.

Okay, before we get started with the questions, a quick note. I want to make a correction

from something I said last week. When discussing the case of Maria Bhutna, the alleged Russian

spy, I said it was one of the cases referred out by Mueller to the DCEU's attorney's office.

In fact, the case was a broader counterintelligence investigation by the Justice Department and

the FBI that predated the 2016 election. Now let's get to your questions. This question

comes from Twitter from a user named GWO Design who says, hashtag askedPreet, what are

your thoughts on the delay of Flynn sentencing after Tuesday's court date? So I have a few

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