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hill maggie miller of the newspaper, she covers cybersecurity there, she is here to help us explore some of these issues. maggie: thank you so much for being with us today. you've noted that social media platforms need to thread the needle between securing data, but also making it more transparent. in the lead up to the elections, however social media platforms such as facebook and twitter done in addressing this vital balancing act? how are they prepared for 2020? guest: two things about that. number one is we don't know enough about what is happening internally to prepare for 2020. there has not been enough transparency, simply in terms of policy. forget releasing data. we don't really know what preparations are being made behind the scenes to prevent this kind of manipulation and to protect election integrity in 2020. but point never to is that it is -- but point number two is it is a difficult situation, but one that can be resolved. what i hear from facebook is the people who are responsible for giving data to social science one are working around the clock. they have a lot of peopl

. >> maggie miller of the hill newspaper, she covers cyber security there. she is here to help us explore some of these issues. >> thank you so much for being with us today. social media platforms really need to spread the needle between securing data but making it more transparent. how has social media platforms such as facebook and twitter done in terms of addressing this vital balancing act? how are they prepared for 2020? >> i will tell you. two things about that. we do not know enough about what is happening eternally to prepare for 2020. there has not not been enough transparency. simply in terms of policy. forget releasing data. we don't really know what preparations are being made behind the scenes to prevent this manipulation and protect integrity in 2020. point number two is that it is a difficult problem, but one that can be solved. i think that what i hear from facebook is that the people that are responsible for instance giving data to social science one working around the clock. they have a lot of people dedicated to it. doing it in a timely ma