Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The indictment secured by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, makes it clear that the most powerful weapon in Russia’s campaign to disrupt the 2016 election was Facebook. We look at how Russia used social media to sow divisions in the United States. Guest: Kevin Roose, who writes about technology for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times on Michael Barbarrow, this is the Daily
0:09.2	Today the Mueller indictment makes clear the most powerful weapon in Russia's campaign to disrupt the US election
0:18.6	was Facebook
0:20.2	What Russia understood before we did about how an American technology company could be turned against
0:29.1	Americans
0:32.8	It's Wednesday February 21st
0:42.7	February 14th
0:44.7	2018 Valentine's Day Ash Wednesday and a mass shooting at a school in Florida the White House
0:49.0	Briefly we are continuing to follow an active shooter situation at a South Florida high school
0:53.8	These are live pictures. They're in Parkland. This is just north of Fort Lauderdale a
1:00.2	Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school. You can't see them here in that particular picture
1:07.7	Just one hour after this gunman open fire killing 17 people in Parkland, Florida
1:12.6	There were all kinds of messages on social media
1:15.8	Shortly after the news of this shooting breaks a bunch of Twitter accounts start releasing
1:26.4	hundreds of different tweets
1:29.0	Kevin Rusk covers technology for the times. They're carrying hashtags some of them say gun control now
1:36.0	gun reform now
1:37.7	But researchers started to notice that some of the bots that were
1:41.8	Tweeting these things had also been previously used to spread other unrelated hashtags about other topics and
1:50.9	They think that that's because these are in fact Russian bots that are being centrally controlled by state actors in Russia
2:02.4	And the message coming from these bots connected to Russia is
2:06.0	advocating for gun control
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