What We Learned From an Attack on Facebook

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bonus Episode: Facebook recently revealed that trolls had been at it again: creating pages intended to drive Americans ever further apart, turning the volume of online political discourse up to 11. All signs point to Russia as the instigator. Graham Brookie of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab joins us to explain what the perpetrators revealed about themselves and what we have to look forward to in the midterms.

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0:42.0	Here are your hosts.
0:44.0	Matthew Galt and Jason Fields.
0:46.0	Hello and
0:55.0	Hello and I'm Jason Fields. Facebook.
0:57.0	And I'm Jason Fields.
0:59.0	Facebook.
1:00.0	Most of us use it even if we hate it.
1:02.0	On August 31st, Facebook deactivated 8 pages, 17 accounts, and 7 Instagram accounts
1:07.4	deemed inauthentic.
1:09.7	Headlines rushed to point to this is further proof that Russia was attempting to interfere with the American
1:13.8	electoral process in the run-up to the midterms.
1:16.5	The truth is something more complicated.
1:19.2	Here to help us get to that truth is Graham Brooky.
1:21.8	24 hours before it pulled the pages and accounts, Facebook
1:24.9	alerted the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Lab. Brooky is the director and acting
1:29.3	manager of the Digital Forensic's Lab. He's also a former White House staffer who sat on the
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