and i can only mean one thing — bots. chat bots. and plenty of them.nderstand us in more ways than ever before and that means they could potentially do more than just sell us stuff. for example, they may even change lives. dave lee has been looking at a unique project in seattle which is using chat bots to help women working in the sex industry to stay safe. this is aurora avenue, north seattle, a long, straight road full of liquor stores, worn out car dealerships, and cheap motels. it is known as one of the traps in the area and that means it is a popular place where women would come and be involved in street prostitution and men come to basically drive up and solicit for sex. as day passes into night, we see only a handful of working women walk by. just because this street isn't as busy as it perhaps once was doesn't mean this business has gone away and in fact it is quite the opposite. the scale of the job to save these women who are now behind closed doors is incredibly overwhelming. like just about every business you can think of, the sex trade is

when they are talking to a bot. >> reporter: we contacted twitter. there was no response but it's policy says you may not pretend to be individuals, groups or organizations in a man ethat's intended to or does mislead confused or deceive. >> it needs to be fixed. . >> reporter: if you want to check for botts go to bot check. they are working on an i-phone app that can do the same thingt. will be available in two weeks. in berkeley. amber lee. >>> some new details about the gunman in the texas church shooting. details of a possible motive and the mistake that allowed him to buy a gun. >> the president calling for peaceful solution to the north korea nuclear threat. he is in south korea working with leaders there to try to end the crisis. . >> good morning. you can see traffic on the bridge looks good getting in. still have a little bit of construction work eastbound. not causing a big delay. westbound traffic is getting more crowded. . >> there is a chill in the morning air with some 20s to the north. a lot of 30s. we will look at those. see what's in

boosted by tools like paid ads and automated bots. most of the real-life followers have no idea that they were caught up in these webs. these networks are later utilized to push an array of disinformation, including stolen e-mails, state-led propaganda like rt news and sputnik, fake news, and divisive content. the goal is pretty simple. it's to get this so-called news into the news feeds of many potentially receptive americans and to covertly and subtly push those americans in the directions the kremlin wants to go. someone who deeply respects the tech industry and who is involved in that industry for more than 20 years, it has taken me quite a bit of time, and i'm still learning, to truly understand the nature of this threat. even i struggle to keep up with the language and the mechanics, the difference between bots, trolls, and fake accounts, how they generate likes, tweets, and shares. and how all of these players and actions are combined into an online ecosystem. what is clear, however, is that this playbook offers a tremendous ba

a government related bot system? >> when we refer to bots, it's primarily a twitter issue. i'm not familiar to bots on google, per se. >> let's go to -- i'm not the technical expert, but youtube is your subsidiary, i presume. >> that's correct, yes. >> and a lot of the hits on youtube, i presume, were generated by electronic devices, not people. so that the rt program that was attacking secretary of state clinton, had a 2% audience, but huge number of hits on youtube. and as a result, you know, you are being unwittingly or wittingly used by bot systems all the time. >> so a bot, an automated view of content, really, sort of the core issue, what people try to do on youtube is drive up their perceived view accounts to make themselves appear more popular than they are. >> they do it by using electronic networks. >> yes, and this is a problem not limited to this context. many people would like to make themselves appear more popular than they are, so we have a lot of sophisticated tools that are designed to combat that. >

in this case we have set up the bot so it is a 15—year—old victim. case we have set up the bot so itme questions and how old am i, $100 per hour, what service are you looking for. we work with survivors of trafficking to ask them how a conversation like this go? what would you say? what are the tipoff that this would maybe not be a bot brutal law enforcement officer. it is told you it is 15, how does that sound? is told you it is 15, how does that sound ? that's where is told you it is 15, how does that sound? that's where the hammer drops. wow! it is a really shocking feeling. somebody who thinks they are anonymous and can go when the internet and buy another human being, it is a wake—up call. internet and buy another human being, it is a wake-up call. the bot isn't being used to arrest people. instead it is intended to work as a deterrent. similar artificial intelligence technology is being used to scrape websites and rich women who may be need help. outreach comes via a text message, something thatis comes via a text message, something that is much easier to hide from a pimp and t

. >> andrea,. >> corba. >> let's see. >> not found. >> nice. >> so i'm not a bot. >> you're not a bot. >> bot check and the chrome extension already have tens of thousands of users and impressive accuracy rate separating real people from digital. >> right now we're around 93.5% and that keeps going up as users are using it. >> they sent an email to the twitter ceo. >> we don't have all of the information twitter has. >> but still haven't heard back. >> a lot of users, tens of thousands of users have taken this tool and actively started classifying propaganda bots on twitter. but we feel it's not the responsibility of these users it's the responsibility of twitter. and we just see this weird predicament that exists right now. >> the search is on for a vandal who keyed about 20 cars in pacifica. investigators say it happened sometime between friday night and saturday morning. police are urging people in the area to check their security cameras for any sign of the suspect. we'll be right back. >> still to come a message from the late harvey milk about to come to light in san francisco, n

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what is twitter's process for identifying a bot? >> we have a lot of data behind sort of the things you see on twitter that looks at the activity of an account. remember, there are hundreds of millions of accounts. activity of an account as it relates to other accounts. as we tweet our activity looks pretty normal. as an automated account tweets thousands of times an hour or logs in thousands of times a day that looks pretty suspicious. our technology is looking for that anomaly, that differentiates normal accounts from automated accounts. but spammers and bad actors are getting better at making themselves look more real. >> what percentage of accounts on twitter are actually bots and not real people? >> so we do a monthly audit of this and investigation and determine that for years less than five percent of accounts are false accounts or spam. >> what happens to accounts on twitter that are suspended by twitter? is there an indefinite status? >> once we suspend an account they are typically terminantly banned from the platform and

what is the process to identify the bots ? the neck we have data behind what you see on twitter that looks at the activity. there are hundreds of millions of accounts that relate to other accounts. the activity looks normal to us if it is automated thousands of times per hour or logs then thousands of times per day looks suspicious the technology is looking for the anomaly from normal accounts from automated accounts the bad actors are getting better to make themselves look more real. >> what percentage of accounts on twitter are bots?. >> lead to a monthly audit that and have determined less than 5% of the years. >> what happens to accounts that are suspended but then once there permanently banned from the platform then we link those accounts that may pop up so the more reinvestigate to build a web of information of the signals the better we get to link those accounts to stop them before they get to the platform. >> my time is expired please submit in writing for a the record the twitter of assessment by this independent asse

[laughing] i join him on saying there should be a war on bots.t's something that didn't get addressed in today's hearing. i feel very strongly we need something called a blade runner law which forces entities to try the identify bots instead of the bots having to identify themselves as not human. we don't know... as you said, we don't know how many tens of millions of these entities are not human, and they absolutely aid these foreign propaganda its. i think it's a priority. i give them credit for starting. by the next election i think they're going to have to do a lot more, and i think congress has to keep watching everybody, because the incentives are not that deep. the revenue model is helped by foreign propaganda. >> woodruff: gentlemen, wile keep it there and we'll continue to watch it. timothy wu, thomas rid. gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and in other news, president trump took to twitter today to downplay the role of a former campaign aide who plead guilty in the russian probe. george papadopoulos admitted to lying to th

we say that it's a bot. we're up front about it. they still thought -- >> if you tell them it was a bot and they thought it was human, you are shouldn't be hiring them. >> we're not talking the next cto. what companies might want this tech following? >> we're focusing on high volume requisition. predominantly call-center type jobs, amazon said they're putting in 500,000 of these individuals the next two years and you need to do it all. >> retail, hospitality are other target job categories for us. food services. >> sure. >> there's a number of big opportunities out there. >> are the questions strictly about yourself, how low have you workt where there was more of subjective there. the goal is to get that initial screen out of the way instantaneously when the candidate applies rather than waiting 72 hours up to a week to get a phone call. >> to mark's point, if it asks are you 18 or above, you move onto the next step. but there are more questions? >> you can get intangibles out of the conversation. we're focusing on the core requirem

states is when one gets close to the heart of the issue think issues emerge and this fake issue of bots possibly connected to the russian federation i think is a fake issue as you rightly point out it is very difficult to actually pinpoint where these parts may have arisen after all they are indeed called bots and it certainly possible the people over here could you know attribute could create a bot and falsely attribute it planted in a way to make it seem as if it's russians. he has asked the federal communications commission to comment on the new york attorney general's investigation concerning fake net neutrality comments and allege for a meddling as soon as we hear anything back we'll let you know what the response is . new this hour police in pakistan have used force to remove a group of islamist activists who have been blocking key routes into the capital for nearly three weeks twenty seven people were injured and dozens detained now would have warning that the following video does contain distressing images. up to. the moment go forward with the draw was it to buy it already know

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what is the process to identify the bots?. >>>> we have data behind what you see on twitter that looks at the activity of the account there are hundreds of millions as relates to other accounts. so ifo we treat our activity looks normal if there's thousands of times an hour or thousands of times a day that looks suspicious. such technology is looking for that anomaly that differentiates the normal accounts from automated accounts but stammers and bad actors are getting better at making themselves look more real. >> so what percentage of accounts on twitter are bots and not real people?. >> we do a monthly audit and investigation to determine that over years less than 5% of the accounts are false or spam. >> what happens to those accounts that are suspended? is there the indefinite status?. >> typically they are permanently banned from the platform and we do work to link those accounts with new ones that may pop up so the moral be investigate from these signals the better we get to link those accounts stopping them before they

well this seems like quite the stretch but in a deleted post attack a actually tweeted that russian bots were amplifying the allegations and now in the same tweet he posted a chart which showed that russian trolls were almost exclusively targeting him so apparently these so-called russian trolls have nothing better to do than spread gossip but how do we actually trace it back to the russian bots in this case well the source the alliance for securing democracy is entirely dedicated to tracking russian influence on twitter but in their methodology they explained that the six hundred accounts that they monitor aren't necessarily controlled by russia they also mention that not all content is created by russia but the majority of the content is created by third parties so what's been the reaction to this are people convinced by what he had to say surprisingly no instead of ramping up the russian hysteria they actually mocked his claim so this is quite the refreshing change from what we've seen in the past. and i discussed the story with media analyst lionel he says that the allegations agains

. >> lately, growing concern that your news feed could be hijacked by foreign governments or even bots hiding on the web. >> it is a -- an attempt to inpatient fear in our election. -- to interfere in our election. >> researchers are looking into the online meddling. randy gyllenhaal with a look at what they're finding. >> reporter: in the facebook feeds and on twitter timelines during the frenzy of last year's election, upenn doctoral candidate david berman noticed a strange pattern. >> a number of fake facebook and twitter profiles. >> reporter: a number of fake accounts boosting divisive pages and posting false political memes. >> memes are one way to garner lots of attention. >> reporter: much of the activity came from bots, computer programs posing as real people. >> they're usually creating not one or two at a time but en masse, in the thousands. >> reporter: nefrgz investigations are underway into how russian bots and ads influenced voters on social media. last month facebook attorneys testified before congress. >> we have found that foreign actors used fake accounts to place ad

states is when one gets close to the heart of the issue fake issues emerge and this fake issue of bots possibly connected to the russian federation i think is a fake issue very difficult to actually pinpoint where these plots may have arisen after all they are indeed called bots and it's certainly possible that people over here could you know attribute could create a bot and falsely attribute it planted in a way to make it seem as if it's russian but we did the f.c.c. to comment on the investigation into fake net neutrality comments and also alleged for meddling we'll let you know when they respond. still ahead this hour a russian joke proved to be a bit too realistic for the media in finland we'll tell you why after the break. i would not be surprised if a deal is made selling fannie mae and freddie mac. people's bank of china so that essentially china becomes america's biggest landlord and keeping prices down and up to the name. lobel harmony and this is i think what we're can expect in the next few years because the u.s. is the world's biggest debtor china is the world's biggest cre

uc berkeley say their concerns over device i have propaganda -- says can lead to identification of botslks to the students to find out how it works. >> reporter: the two students found a way to identify false or misleading links to stories on twitter. the goal is to improve our nation's device i have political climate. >> it keeps us awake at night. one of the reasons that we have been spending the past eight weeks working on this. >> reporter: while using social media they noticed many automated accounts or bot that's were putting out inflammatory misinformation, fake news. >> it is a bigger rat's nest than we thought. >> reporter: the two roommates became concerned when they saw suspicious russian bot accounts on twitter and wanted to help identify propaganda. >> a foreign actor could influence the way that americans in the united states thinks is so scary. >> reporter: signs of bot accounts include a short history but a long list of followers. constant retweets. little or no original content. >> this is a huge deal. and frankly it compromises the security of our own social media, our

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in the future maybe in thirty forty years of course now we can build time you're all bots maybe tiny robots that a doctor can inject in your blood faint like in the fantastic why it and they go to look for it detected sell a tumor cell or deliver a drug. as. the sculpture outside the institute is a magnified model of the nano car ben says he never really thinks about his nobel prize. of course as a side dish you dream of winning a nobel prize because it's the highest honor you can get in science so it is a god of a boy's dream but i don't think about the nobel prize what i do is hard work and try to make something possible. i've learned a lot about nano cars science fiction and a remarkable researcher. but i still can't quite get the knack of this. this week we asked on twitter and facebook where the you found the idea of a nano car driving through your body fantastic he reflected. in a tender folks sees nanotechnology in the service of medicine and points out that if nano robots repaired cells repeatedly we could live forever. periodic it would prefer to see nano robots that can bui

they created a program to help users installing a blue bot check buttont.help determine if a tweet is from an account belonging to a human and not an automated one or one that's been hacked. >> it's a bigger rat's nest than we thought. >> the possibility that a foreign hacker could influence the way that we think so scary. >> this is a huge deal and compromises the security of our own social media or opinions. >> the two students say they have reached out to twitter twice by e-mail but haven't roofed a response yet. >>> our time is 5:53. a big event later today at at&t park in san francisco. music stars alicia keyes are preforming at dream fest. proceeds benefit ucsf. some of the concert preformers in the past have included u2 and the foo fighters. nick fury has helped raise more than $46 million for ucsf children's hospital. >>> today will also be day two of dream force 2017. in san francisco. ktvu paul -- tells you more about the convention which brings thousands of people to the city and big name speakers. >> reporter: as you walk in to the dream force c

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difficult to actually pinpoint where these parts may have arisen after all they are indeed called bots and it's certainly possible the people over here could you know attribute could create a bot and falsely attribute it planted in a way to make it seem as if it's russians we did ask the federal communications commission to comment on the new york attorney general's investigation concerning fake net neutrality comments and alleged foreign meddling to let you know when they respond. if you think navy seals sound theism how about the soviet battle nous they've certainly been getting the media in finland fired up although a little basic journalistic fact checking might have saved them the worry. the be. the be . published in the russian magazine cold mechanics has the man behind it. but i think the photos used in this article a partially real the photo of the moose was taken by a friend of mine that's a moose farm one of the red army soldiers is me i'm standing with my but it was the camera on the right having taken this photo we later combined it with a photo of the moose i mean has been

first, in a few short words, can you please explain to us the difference between a bot and a troll. >> the way we think about that internally is a bot is an automated account so it's an account where the machine is largely responsible for the actions, setting it up, tweeting, retweeting. >> so it's fully automatic? >> yes. typically that's the behavior we see. we do see combination. troll farms are a new challenge for us and a bigger challenge we're going to try to tackle in a few ways. when we think of trolls we think of a real human behind the account. oftentimes coordinated with others or coordinated with the few or many accounts. >> so with the troll, it's a real human but necessarily a real human who we know who that individual is. >> typically that's the behavior we see. >> and if i understand this correctly, the russians took advantage by creates false accounts that were trolls and deploying many bots that were able to retweet into the thousands they thought convenient to their cause. >> that's what we discovered. >> here's kind of the key issue. it's essentially to twitter tha

first, in a few short words, can you explain to us the difference between a bot and a troll? >> bot is an automated account, an account where a machine is largely responsible for the actions. setting it up, tweeting, retweeting. >> it's fully automatic? >> yes, that's typically the behavior we see. troll fwarms are a new challenge for us, and a bigger challenge we're going to try to tackle in a few ways. we think of a troll as a real human behind the account. coordinated with others. >> so with a troll, it's a real human, but not necessarily a real human we know who it is. >> the russians took advantage of this by tweeting messages they thought favorable to their cause? >> that's correct. >> here's the keyer you u so me. >> a person doesn't need to disclose their identity on the blatt form. >> that's correct. facebook and youtube, there isn't the same anonymity. a person in st. petersburg or russia or ukraine could share content. they could pretend to be a person. the every day user has no way of knowing who they are, right? >> that's correct. we have a number of signals behi

created a program to identity twitter accounts run by bots.way to identity false or misleading links and stories on twitter and they took action when they saw suspected russian bot accounts on twitter and they wanted to help other users identity propaganda. they created a formula that lets twitter users install a blue bot check button to help identity if an act is from a humor automated account. >> it's a bigger rats nest than we thought it was. the pocket that a foreign actor could influence the way that americans in the united states think, so scary. >> this is a huge deal and frankly compromises the security of our social media. >> the two students say they have reached out to twitter but haven't received a response. >>> if you see a e-mail from ne tfl ix claiming your account is about to be suspended it's a scam. it asks to you reverify your account with a link that goes to a fake site. to avoid falling victim the company advises people to hover your mouse over links and check the domain they are pointing too. i always tell people to -- ju

chat bot designed to delay and distract scammers by engaging them in endless conversations. the longer a scammer gets engaged in conversation with a bot the less time they have to target new victims. >> ali likes to engage like that. now you can do it with an app. >>> all right, that does it for us. this has been a lovely edition of "velshi & ruhle." >> you can catch us every day at 11:00 a.m. and me every day at 3:00 p.m. >> and me at 9:00. for now we're signing off. have a great weekend. ♪ there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance plan, these help pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and, these plans let you choose any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. you could stay with the doctor or specialist you trust... or go

difficult to actually pinpoint where these parts may have arisen after all they are indeed called bots and it's certainly possible that people over here could you know attribute could create a bot and falsely attribute it planted in a way to make it seem as if it's russian but we have asked the f.c.c. to comment on the investigation into those allegations of fake comments and for meddling to you i will let you know when they respond. in other news tonight the police in the pakistani capital have forcibly dispersed a group of islam this activists who've been blocking key roads there in the lead three weeks almost two hundred people have been and one police officer was killed according to local media a word of warning though the following video does contain distressing images. i was. i. was i was. really. was i was i was. i. was thousands of police officers took part in that operation to disperse supporters of the hardline islamist political passing they are opposed to a legal move that will allow non muslim candidates to run for election next year. sisters were also demanding the curren

the question is how do these companies identify these bots.ow do they make sure that they prevent misinformation, and that's not an easy issue. but i hope they will work on that. they have to work on that before the 2018 election. >> you are now approaching the end of your freshman year in office. given what you know now, what's the one piece of advice that you wish someone had told you before you took office? >> relationships. the relationships in congress m make a big difference. >> you also said you were surprised by the level of anger at congress. >> i was. i mean i understood that being a challenger, that people were frustrated. but what has been surprising is people have lost their esteem for congress. they've lost the sense of the nobility of public service. they feel that congress has let them down, that they haven't done anything. we hear all these allegations of sexual harassment and that the same rules don't apply. and i think regardless of party, regardless of geography, those of us who have the privilege of being one of 435 people

well this seems like quite the stretch but in a deleted post take a actually tweeted that russian bots were amplifying the allegations and now in the same tweet he posted a chart which showed that russian trolls were almost exclusively targeting him so apparently these so-called russian trolls have nothing better to do than spread gossip but how do they actually trace it back to the russian bots in this case well the source the alliance for securing democracy is entirely dedicated to tracking russian influence on twitter but in their methodology they explained that the six hundred accounts that they monitor aren't necessarily controlled by russia they also mention that not all content is created by russia but the majority of the content is created by third parties so what's been the reaction to this are people convinced by what he had to say surprisingly no instead of ramping up the russian hysteria they actually mocked his claim so this is quite the refreshing change from what we've seen in the past. the creation of a unified european army could soon be a reality twenty three member s

they took action after they saw suspicious russian bot accounts on twitter.y created an algorithm that let's twitter users install a bot check button. it can detect if it is from a human, automated account or one that has been hacked. >> it is a bigger rats nest than we thought. >> the possibility that a foreign actor could be influencing the way that americans in the united states think is so scary. >> this is a huge deal. and frankly it compromises the security of our own social media, our own opinions. >> the two students say they have reached out to twitter twice by e-mail but have not yet received a response. >>> for more on some of the other headlines we are working on in the news room, let's go to dave clark. >> thank you, sal. here are some of the top stories we're following. a $25,000 reward is being offered by east bay homeowners for information leading to the arrest and conviction of three burglary suspects much that's after several burglaries in the exclusive blackhawk neighborhood. the latest one was friday night about 7:30. three suspects broke

the bots have arrived in virginia. swarm into the virginia governor's race promoting chatter about a racially charged ad buy days before the report. the reaction has been amplified by automated bot accounts. out of the 15 accounts tweeted most tweektly, 13 of the 15 belong to fully or partially automated bots. now we have that activity transferred into a local race. >> right. the danger here is we've ignored what happened in the presidential race to an extent with a president who seems to want to live in this fiction that russians didn't meddle with our elections. they did. his campaign colluded with them. the threat was they would do it over and over again in other democrats and now it could be happening at a state level. when bots are engaged, you know there are some nefarious players involved. what's happening on the ground in virginia is what strikes me about it from afar, that northam has let gillespie control the final week of the conversation, not a great place to be. you always expect it to be tight. historical

response from twitter. >> we want to give people the tool to understand when they are talking to a bots. >> we talked to -- contacted twitter but the policy says that you may not impersonate individuals, groups or organizations. particularly in a manner that misleads, confuses or misleads. >> you can go to their website to see how you can install it. they are developing an iphone app that will do the same thing. they expected to be ready and available in about two weeks. >>> another seat -- ski season is about to get underway. 12 inches of fresh snow hit this weekend. with low temperatures in the forecast, the resort is planning to continue to make snow. it is scheduled to open november 17. other resorts are also making snow and getting ready to open soon. >>> rain in the forecast, not for tomorrow, but for wednesday night. so here is the system that is out here it will stay out here and tomorrow is a nice day. plenty of sunshine and dry temperatures pretty cool when you start off tomorrow morning. look where it is now. 41 in novato. it is chilly when you get going. when you get going t

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he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says russian bots so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this there's absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some sort of strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or an accusation that's forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary. this week r.t. america was forced to to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. after months of pressure from washington the channel will now have to abide by a law first set up to combat nazi propaganda before the second world war it will have to regularly disclose full details of its broadcasts and staffing to the u.s. government plus must maintain a transparent financial structure and be ready for a full insp

on twitter, and targeted advertisements on facebook and google. >> it involves the use of bots, thef technology, to spread artificial news, what many people call fake news. >> narrator: the stories made it into the mainstream media, too, and on the campaign trail, donald trump would use them to his advantage. >> and she can't make it 15 feet to her car, give me a break. give me a break. >> he would cite material that was from what we used to call the fringe. but the fringe became the center of american political life. >> give me a break! >> and some of that fringe involved russian stories that weren't accurate. (man speaking russian) >> because what putin was trying to do was to show that everyone's lying, everyone's cheating. there is no objective truth. and there is no difference between what you hear from western media and what you hear in, say, russia's media. that was the line, and he became increasingly successful in blurring it for people, including in the united states and the west. >> top democrats are accusing very senior levels of the russian government of trying to influ