Qanon, Russian Trolls & Facebook: Will Sommer and Ben Collins; Plus "Hoax" author Brian Stelter
The Chuck ToddCast
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🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Greater Washington, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd Cas. |
| 0:10.0 | To be tonight, we saw something unusual, a candidate loss in Massachusetts for the first time |
| 0:14.3 | I know. |
| 0:15.3 | We saw something that we have seen before, Russians tried to interfere with the American |
| 0:18.5 | election. |
| 0:19.5 | Dr. Will Sum from the Daily Beast at Penn College, when we seen news about election interference, |
| 0:25.2 | QAnon and Facebook. |
| 0:26.2 | Depending on what news you watch, you might not have seen any of that. |
| 0:30.4 | At least that's the premise of Brian Stelters, new book, Hokes. |
| 0:33.2 | I talked to him later in the show, but first up, joined now by Will Summer. |
| 0:36.8 | He's the politics reporter for the Daily Beast, covering conservative media and QAnon, which |
| 0:41.6 | yes, it is his own beat these days. |
| 0:43.8 | Also joining us has Ben Collins. |
| 0:45.9 | He's a reporter for us here at NBC News, covering disinformation and politics. |
| 0:49.2 | So yes, QAnon is his beat as well. |
| 0:51.9 | So Will and Ben, welcome to both of you. |
| 0:55.2 | Now I want to start with the news of the week and what we saw at Facebook. |
| 0:59.1 | Ben, the best we learned is that it was an FBI tip, which tells me this is the FBI. |
| 1:04.7 | Hey, Facebook, you've got this problem. |
| 1:07.4 | Facebook acted. |
| 1:08.4 | How would you assess the time it took from seeing this problem to erasing it this time? |
| 1:16.3 | So from what we know, these accounts were up for months, these Russian accounts. |
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