Mark Warner: Tech Companies Didn’t Take Russian Social Media Threat Seriously Enough

‘I believe they are recognizing that threat now. They have provided us with information’

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WARNER: "I also want to raise an issue that the chairman and I have been working jointly on, as well. And that is the Russians’ use of social media platforms, social media platforms that increasingly the vast majority of us turn to for information, for news in a way that is very different. If you look, for example, in the realm of political advertising, we’ve seen an over 700 percent increase in the use of digital political advertising between 2012 and 2016. The expectation is that may double or triple again in terms of the next election cycle because of the ability to so target voters. I was concerned at first that some of these social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough. I believe they are recognizing that threat now." 

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