such as when a father refers to a son, in one of the ads, as son left the premises. or a wife who wanted a husband who said -- who she said, or a wife who wanted a husband disappeared. in 1870, francis parker took up an ad that was very frank -- frances parker took out and add looking for her two brothers, that was very frank. it said they escaped on the underground railroad. -- from whom she had been separated in a place called ally white. she says later on in the ashes carried back to the plantation by those union troops, and that is when she was separated from them. they likely were in the process of running away when they ran into the union troops. many ads simply describe loved ones who left, they use that term. 17-year-old james haskins farm to join the union army. brothers and sisters, in 1858. hannah willis spann did the same thing, looking for brothers left in kentucky. these ads serve as important evidence. these ads, in particular, when they are using a coded language of how enslaved people are more often than not responsible for their own emancipation. the

those ads are public in the sense that, like, if you go ads utube and watch the that are playing before each video, you can get a better sense of it. targeted in some ways, but there is a little bit more transparency. facebook is such a closed system. really all you ever see of have on is what you your own feed. the least transparent and that's probably why it's under the most scruti scrutirecrui scrutiny. host: another report is about they are s and how monetized by the tech companies? julia: this is becoming such a hot topic. tech r thought as a reporter that i would be dealing with nazis. that.t never thought about but basically, hate groups have found the internet to be a great and recruit new people to their causes, and so survey of all the different payment systems that groups to ng these paypal being ons, the leading one. after our report pay balance did hut down a bunch of the donation links for these sites. we used a list of sites that designate as hate by the anti-defamation league and then to ally, those hate sites, prove that they weren't hateful, launched a hate campaign ag

the prices they charge for political ads. in my experience, stations take their compliance efforts very seriously. the fcc's political broadcasting staff is exceptionally helpful, but even experienced broadcasters and their counsel frequently encounter questions as to which no clear answer exists. disclaimer is the information that must be included in ads about their sponsor. this is referred to as sponsor id requirements. disclosure refers to requirements for sponsors of political advertising to reveal who they are and who determines their policies. both the fcc and the fec have rules governing aspects of both disclosure and disclaimer. but agencies have sought to avoid conflicting regulations and very importantly both believe that broadcasters and their employees should not be required to serve as unpaid government enforcement agents or private investigators. the fcc's disclaimer rule for all political advertising is that the ad must include a statement saying either paid for or sponsored by whoever is actually writing the c

ads and the requirements that broadcasters retain public files of political ads. it's time for this to change. the internet is only going to grow in its importance to politics. the $1.4 billion spent online in 2016 was eight times higher than 2012. failure to subject ads on the internet to the same disclosure regime as other media will leave the public without key information about who is trying to influence them. it will allow more mischief from foreign adversaries. like russia's meddling in 2016. the honest ads act introduced in in the senate by klobuchar, mccain and warner and in the house by representative kilmer offers a promising framework to ensure such disclosure. congress could also close other loopholes that allow secrecy and potentially foreign money, like spending by dark money organizations and foreign owned corporations. the steps are surely needed, investigations into the 2016 election have revealed a widespread multipronged effort by the russian government to alter the course of debate. injecting propaganda and divisive messages into the american po

the purchase of radio ads i understand. i understand there is the voice of america which is announced and disclosed and clearly comes from the united states. but what about the kind of surreptitious penetration that -- of the public consciousness that took place in 2016 here? >> well, history shows us that we have all played games in each other's countries with each other's media for generations. i'm not defending it or decrying it. i'm just stating a fact that -- >> well, there's no doubt the u.s. government has intervened to destabilize democracies, as in chile, as in iran, and that's something that obviously that real small "d" democrats oppose and have tried to stop in our history. but perhaps we need some kind of global understanding about giving the people of every society the right first to free and fair elections in democratic government. and then the right to pursue those elections without covert interference by foreign nations. well, let me ask this question. the fica makes it unlawful for any foreign national, dir

more of those ads are public in the sense that if you go on youtube and watch the ads that are playing before each video, you can get a better sense of our facebook page. if all you ever see is on your own feed, that's why it's probably under the most scrutiny. >> another recent report you participated in is about hate groups. this is becoming such a hot topic. i never thought, as the tech reporter, i would be dealing with this but basically hate groups have found internet to be a great place. we did a survey of all the different payment systems that were enabling these, palpating the leading one. one of them launch the hate report against one of my reporter and the least our e-mail with spam to take our computer system down. >> what's it like reporting on these issues for pro- public are opposed to the wall street journal where you spent 13 years. >> what's great is the ability to do collaborations and do a little more open-ended stuff, so for instance the facebook tool that we built, it's really a tool for crowdsourcing and we wanted to test it and we went to germany where they were

the ads were brought in rubles. there are laws that say foreigners cap by ooh lex ads about apparently -- election ads and apparently these slipped through and because that are were under fake identities maybe the didn't find them until recently. >> host: what i learned in your reporting is that these are basically self-service ad placements. correct? there's not necessary lay human involved. >> guest: yeah. i mean, in the course modify reporting i've bought ads on facebook several times, and it's really just kind of an online menu. you go in, put down what you want, bunch of dropdown menus happen and you click, buy, it's very easy, and then you get an automated response. usually within 10 or 15 minutes, saying your ad was approved or not approved. and so facebook has not been very clear about how many humans are engaged in this system. they say there's a lot algorithms and there are some humans, but apparently maybe not enough humans. >> host: these ad could have been placed without facebook even knowing it? >> gues

the rules limit the type of ad stations can so. short messages cannot be used because the the disclaimer willt fit, thus inflexible disclaimer rules can prevent the use of some formats for political speech. turning to disclosure, broadcasters and cable systems must maintain public inspection titles including the political file. television station files are now online and all stations will have their files online by next march. for the candidates in the station required to disclose the candidate, the requested schedule and cost of the ad. disclosure requirements for the long candidate ads that include both independent expenditures relating to the elections are more complex. the rules require detailed disclosure for any ad communicates a political matter of national importance and explains that these include references to the legal equal the five candidate and election for federal office or national legislative issue of public importance and its definition is to say the least unclear. for example there's the reference to the legal equ

in the implications of russia purchasing facebook ads. this hearing is about two hours. >> the subcommittee will come to order.ubin the chair is authorized to declare recess at anytime. it's part of a series of hearings. they may have become obsolete or need updating to reflect advances. with have hearings on the international drones and many other issues. the laws and regulation governing political advertisements. they oversee several campaign finance laws and enforces disclaimer laws. in addition the fcc enforces additional closure. some have proposed increased disclaimer and disclosure lost for the ads placed on internet platforms.s. the interplay between these two regulatory agencies and how they each apply the law is how they are uniquely situated to examine and i hope we dig into that today. ximino -- in many ways there is the subcommittee's efforts.or there is a level of urgency that cannot be understated. since the sun rose on our democratic experiment to at the series had sought to destroy what they fought for. they've always gone

, who is paying for the ad. what other ads they're putting out into the boaworld and what they're targeting. and understand who the customers actually are. >> you admit if you trace it all the way back to an american corporation, let's call it americans for puppies and prosperity, and it's actually a shell corporation, you don't know who is behind it, it could be vladimir putin, it could be a big powerful american special interest. it could be the north koreans or the iranians. you need to be able to penetrate the obscurity of the shell corporation, correct? >>ing yeah, we're working on the best approach to getting to know the clients and getting to know who is behind the entities that are signing up for advertising. >> thank you. thanks, chairman. >> on our side, senator grassley, sas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to both of the senators for leading this discussion. and thanks to the companies for their cooperation. the press has reported that the russian government placed ads in facebook that were largely

kill unarmed black people or with our police but also you fill in the numbers of the percentage of ads that like one even before the election according to facebook's own statistics which they provided the congress fifty six percent of the ads appeared after the election so i don't know if there's some time travel machine but there's a time travel machine but there's no way that they could have affected the election then twenty five percent of the ads were never seen by anyone and a majority of the ads were never deployed in swing states then we've actually seen reports that some of the ads were related to puppies they simply contained images of puppies what it seems to me to be the what this looks like to me is a russian troll farm in st petersburg or something that may have been paid by a private client who was using hot button political. issues along with poppy images and other things we haven't seen to generate clicks from niche audiences and this is how facebook sells its ads there is no evidence whatsoever of russian operatives pushing any clear ideological line which is why we he

before an election, the ban on foreign nationals buying such ads and the requirement that broadcasters retain public files of political ads. it's time for this to change. the internet is only going to grow in its importance to politics. the 1.4 billion spent online in 2016 was almost eight times higher than 2012. failure to subject ads on the internet to the same diss closure regime -- disclosure regime -- [inaudible] and it will allow more mischief from foreign adversaries like russia's med untiling 2016. meddling in 2016. the act introduce by senators cloak shar, mccain and warner, offers a promising framework to insure such disclosure. congress could also close other loopholes that allow secrecy and potentially foreign money like spending by dark money organizations and foreign-owned corporations. these steps are surely needed. investigations into the 2016 election have reveal a multi-pronged effort by the russian government to alter the course of debate by injecting dedivisive messages into the american political discussion. as has been mentioned, firms linked to the kremlin bought

that the nature of the ads. russia does not have loyalty to a political party in the united states. their goal is to divide us and discredit our democracy. so question for you, mr. stretch. the ads that facebook has produced are all from internet research agency. what is facebook doing to identify ads and contents placed by other bad actors? >> thank you, senator, for the question. we are focused broadly on addressing questions about the authenticity around the content placed on our platform. and the investments we're making around transparency sweep across the entire platform. the learning that we gained from the 2016 election and from our expansive investigation into it, now informs the automated tools that we use to detect them or move fake accounts from anywhere. >> has facebook produced all the ads and contents it has located from russian sources that were placed prior to the election, and if facebook has not, will facebook focus on producing those ads? >> yes, senator, we have identified everything. we prod

rolled out another leak from the intelligence committee russia planted facebook ads in wisconsin and michigan it's designed to paper over hillary clinton's failures and it's her allies in congress mark warner in the senate and madam schiff in the house who are doing it. and also it's laughable because the amount of actual influence on facebook that cambridge analytic i had funded by robert mercer who've also funded trump is. like four out paces any of these small face forget but i've got like three minutes left i want to move on real quick to israel because you've done such great work on israel in the past you've been to gaza and one of the prominent talking points of the israeli government is this idea that has a blog will do anything to wipe out the jews they hate all jews is that when you're found i mean if you just look at the situation now the syrian civil war is over isis is being defeated and the syrian government is moving back into control of its own territory it is an ally of iran and it has worked hand in glove with hezbollah lebanese political and mill and militia group to

the ad might be over to the top. >> in the first part of the ad he's responding to a question from the left-leaning and somehow wants in a murder with the dreamers. >> he was asked about criminals. not the dreamers, non- immigration issue. this criminals. and he said all have their backs. he just said that he'd have the backs of criminals. >> we've seen this ourselves with reporters talking to him. he doesn't always listen to the question he just has a prepared answer. >> there's the horrific thing i've thought the lieutenant governor had a little bit more class. you get a chance to attract on the right ring base with immigration and also take a snap at urban centers i thought the debate. >> are we not supposed to use his words because he made a mistake? >> it's how far to the left he really is it would really make a state unsafe. >> i would say it worked. >> i don't know what happened yet. some of these surrogates were booked weeks ago to come in. i get the sense that campaign is continuing to move in many ways and they're making some changes based on where he was. i don't know it was

for example, the political ad database encompassed in the honest ads act actually goes beyond electioneering and communications because it involves issues of legislative importance so would create a publicly-available record that researchers could use to try to piece together what's coming from where, who's being targeted and what are the messages. that could be, i think, extremely valuable in understanding what the sort of next attacks are and how to respond. and then i think there are more things to be done sort of outside the realm of campaign finance, and that's going to require industry and congress working together in the ways that mr. rothenberg has proposed and really figuring out how to get on top of this thing. >> let me ask you another question. the supreme court upheld our traditional ban on foreign nationals spending money in u.s. elections. that's not covered by citizens united if they are not a u.s. individual or a corporation. however, foreign money could take over domestic corporations, as you were suggesting before, and then money could be channeled through this citizens un

find a place for the ads to live so they can be reviewed later. kevin cirilli, so good to have you on the show. this is fascinating stuff. is, it'sng as it disturbing. kevin: it is. i think, quite frankly, that that press conference -- i just got back from the capital. that press conference, really, i think is sending a signal to silicon valley that this is just the beginning. senator mark warner, the top democrat on the committee, went so far as to call on facebook to release those ads. the committee passed chairman, senator richard burr, a republican said, quote-unquote, "we're fine with them doing it," when asked point-blank if he believed they should release the ads. the only reason the committee is not releasing the ads is out of respect of precedent for those who hand over documents and give interviews, classified interviews to the committee. but the signal coming out of this committee, from this press conference, is, get ready, silicon valley, because google, facebook, and twitter are all going to be -- have been invited and will likely now

the posts and ads exemplified divisive political issues. r identified over 200 accounts linked to russian groups. rt, arrested today, spent approximately 274,000 targeting the u.s. markets. publishedian agents more than 121,000 messages on twitter. google found ads by russian accounts that used youtube or google. russian agents uploaded about 1000 videos on youtube. questions to each of you and a short answer on the stupid questions i will put together. to each company, starting with mr. stretch -- have you completed internal investigations to identify all accounts of advertisements and posts with connections to rush of the purchased ads in the lead up to the 2016 election? if not, what is the timeline for completion? >> senator, as i stated in testimony, the investigation continues. we expect to keep the committee up-to-date on any further discoveries. >> same goes for twitter. we continue to work with your staff. september 1 through november 15 is the relevant time, but we're working on other investigations. theor google, as investigation

it's a tool to insure that foreign entities are not paying for the ads. i've heard several people talk about up on the hill that the $100,000 that was spent on the ads in facebook was paid in rubles. that should are be a tell tale sign. in fact, caller, i'm agreeing with you in that give the american people the information, make sure it's as accurate as you can, then i trust the american people to make up their own minds based on that information. >> woodbridge, virginia, brian go ahead. >> caller: i want you to commend -- y'all bringing legislation, it's going to be legislation proposed to congress? >> yes, it's been introduced. >> caller: great. i really hope the congressmen pay attention. in a age of information you can't have any intelligent decision making when the facts are confused. like yelling fire in a crowded theater or bomb on an airplane, you know, the former caller had a point, debbie. but when you get so -- sometimes you don't have the tools to become a private investigator to say where is the smoke. you either got to figure out is this true

>> i think if you look at a representative sample of the ads on twitter, the rt ads, the 430,000 or so expenditure that rt made, those you have to conclude just on the surface of -- were designed to hurt hillary clinton's campaign. on facebook, i think the probably the majority of ads were issues that sought to exploit the divisions within the united states and you have to look beyond the superficial 00 experience to the targeting of the ad to figure out who they were trying to move in what direction. >> that target, congressman, based on what we're learning, do you think that was the kind of expertise detail and nuance that the russians needed american help to do. >> that's the million dollar question here was the sophistication such that it couldn't really have been done without the data analytics of the campaign and on that we simply don't have a conclusion yet. but i will say this, i do agree with my colleagues in the senate that the evidence we have seen on the intelligence committee's assessment which includes the russian motivation of hurting hillary and helping trump, the evide

so are the ads. twitter said sheen can run the free content, but she can't run the ad. we know her ability to get the message out does depend on access to ads. >> it's a spoiler. >> why we allow issue-aid basted ads. and i think the responsibility of an open platform is to let people express themselves. >> speaking of checking, how confident are you that facebook has identified a all the deceptive pages used to try to influence the election. >> we are doing everything we can to follow up on every lead. we were look at this certainly not as early as we would have liked to because we wish we had found it before it ever happened. but as early as we heard any rumors, e we started our investigation. >> when was that? >> if you want the history of this, you have to go back. >> when did you hear the rumors and start investigating? >> so when we started investigating follows our long-term security threat. you think about 2015, 2016. the threats people were worried about were hacking, taking down accounts getting into your e-mail and sharing. so our security team was focused on t

backlash on social media was swift and the ad was pulled. ed by union any lever they makes have 19 and ponds apologized saying, we missed the mark. but that apology was really a non apology. many wondered how that ad could have made it through multiple layers receive view. i mean it's 2017. how could a company be so tone deaf? here's how. lack of diversity. we've come a long way but there's still a long way to go. this isn't the first time dove has put out a racially incentive ad in 2011 dove was criticized for an ad showing three women side by side each with lighter skin than the woman neck to her. behind them were signs before and after. the before sign was behind african-american woman and it showed contracted skin while the after side behind a white woman showed smooth skin visibly more beautiful skin said the ad. plenty more examples. remember the pepsi ad with kendall jenner. it shows why we need more diversity everywhere. people tend to higher people that look like them. there's nothing wrong with that. it's comfortable. we got to get

but the rt ads were almost uniformly anti-clinton. ushing stories about hillary clinton's health or how close the clintons were to indictment or dissatisfaction with hillary by the bernie supporters, among the twitter ads quite uniformly anti-clinton. >> the ads that rt purchased? >> that rt purchased. rt chose certain stories it wanted to push out to the american electorate during the election that were profiled on rt. those you have to conclude there was clear design in these ads. with facebook we have to go beneath the surface to look at how they were targeted to get at russian intentions but again the advertising is just one subset of what the russians did. we have to look at content they were pushing out, stories they were pushing out, twitter trends they were trying to create. i think we have a lot more work to do to uncover the breadth and depth of that as well as just who they were going after and how they were trying to manipulate our voters. >> you're saying while you and burr both see ads or content that mentions clinton and

so far, nobody is releasing the ads. we are hoping we are going to see the ads. there's a november 1st hearing. then we, the public, the voters affected by this get to see the ads. >> will we get to see them before the public sees them? >> hopefully everybody sees them at the same time. >> thank you, scott. >>> the world series is almost here. baseball fans in california may still be celebrating this morning. >> i knew we were going to do it. i waited for a long time. >> the dodgers fans took to the streets of los angeles. the game was actually in chicago. the dodgers won the pennant in 11-1 against the cubs. this is the first world series trip for the dodgers since 1988. l.a. will play either the yankees or astros. >> i'm hoping for the astros. >> you are. >> chicago, not so happy. >> i bet. >> dodgers all day with that one. >>> looking at the forecast this morning, you are stepping out the door. it feels cooler and you can see the remnants of the rain that we had overnight. everything is still kind of wet. that may include your car. so, as you drive this morning

the question is how influential were these ads in the actual election results? are reviewing thousands of facebook ads as part of the russian probe of wide ranging social media campaign to influence the u.s. presidential election. an estimated 10 million people in the u.s., according to facebook, saw at least one of the 3,000 political ads bought by accounts linked to the kremlin. cost for that access, just $100,000 over the course of two years. and facebook's data suggests money bought russia influence well beyond all possible doubt the election and may continue to this day with more than half of the ads viewed after voters cast their ballots in november. they also used a facebook tool to send specific ads to voters who had visited those sights. this according to "the washington post" report citing sources familiar with the investigation. congress is now under pressure to release those ads to the public. will you release them publicly? >> we don't release documents provided to had velgive committee. >> tonight new details are emerging from another set of documen

source of the ad was generated i generated byy -- foreign entities. moreu see a story becoming popular, whether the trending is because a series of americans are liking that story or that page, whether that is generated or falseeople or bots identity balk accounts, for example facebook has indicated between 30,000-50,000 falls accounts were taken down. accounts were taken down. if you have somebody running an ad for you or against you, you should be able to take a look at can thetent the way you same way people on radio or newsprint are. this is an ongoing process but we are seeing increasing levels of cooperation and with that i will turn it back over to the chairman. >> the committee asked us, are we going to release the facebook ads. we don't release documents submitted to our committee. i will say it again, the senate committee does not release documents, whatever classification, it is not a practice we will get into. clearly, if any of these social media platforms would like to do that we are fine with them doing it because we are already scheduli

it's happening through software. >> even if you collected the ads, what do you do in a society which the first amendment which says you are allowed to do that. >> you are allowed to express your opinion. we have rules that regulate when you pay fortissing in media. i assume that issue has been resolved and that we already have the disclosure laws and to apply them online makes sense. it gets tricky when you talk about what you are paying because companies don't like to reveal that. targeting issues get tricky. if you take an ad out in the san francisco chronical we know what demographic you are reaching because we know the demographic of the chronical. on facebook you can be looking for left-handed people who drive prius if that's what your market is. should we disclose that? >> one of the tactics was to set up ads on dogs for example, gain a following, and start injecting your thoughts or fake news into that platform once you have a following. >> exactly. >> so we have ads and then we have what we call the fake news. the internet was created and opportunity itself for years as the un

she said when the ads come out, they will also release the targeting data. guess we can come up with a conclusion then. emily: looking forward, how big a crisis is it? the election aside, fake news, political advertising, how hard are these issues going to be for the platforms to deal with? bill: if it is not facebook, it will be another platform. the key is to secure the platforms as much as we can from future influence. they will find other ways to try to foment and hurt the american people. the key is to try to minimize that. i don't think it is a crisis. a crisis is a fire raging through northern california, the hurricane through puerto rico, a crisis is people are dying. , this election interference should be taken seriously, but i do not want to overstate it. emily: thank you so much. "bloomberg technology" is live on twitter, you can check us out . this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: tesla is recalling about 11,000 model x suv's due to possible issues with the second fold flat seats. only 3% of the electric suv's are being recalled, only 3% of them have issue

under the honest ads act, it disguises the random locations would still be able to buy and run any kind of political ad from the outskirts of st. petersburg. it would be on radio or the internet of people work very hard to mask their identities andat in the media they can do that and we have seen that efforts to try to mask where the money is coming from. there is position in the regulations that talk about getting to the true identities of the source of the funding. that applies for television or radio and we wanted to ensure in the cases of the paid political ad so let me just emphasize this oncen. again. the legislation isn't trying to solve allal the problems of peoe expressing views on the internet there is no intent to reach that. it is very narrowly tailored to look at the online paid political advertising and there is language in this bill that does put obligations on the platform to do the best to ensure that the money doesn't come into the election. >> there would be extra work for these databases. >> i think most americans would be shocked at the level of granularity of the d

those ads reached 10 million americans. these are just the numbers we know of. there are likely many more ads that were purchased directly or indirectly by the russian government. u.s. campaign finance law prohibits foreign money in elections but allows foreign money to purchase issue ads. all political ads must carry a disclaimer which discloses who the buyer of the ad s. this

ton the public can expect see more than 3000 russian linked ads. ide ranging exclusive interviews with executives. what they had to say about amazon's $4 billion windfall. china officially demands a piece of its biggest tech company. we will put the potential power grab under the microscope. facebook ceo says the company absolutely supports public release of 3000 ads during the presidential election. she says it's is up to congress to decide the appropriate time to do so. me with --d.c. to meet with ceos. >> we are giving them our peace. they can understand the whole picture. what i reiterated in those meetings is that we think it is important they get the whole picture and they explain that. emily: joining me now is the founder of google ventures. youh, i want to talk to first. what is your strategy here? she has been over communicating in this whole ordeal. they want to make the point that they are taking responsibility for what it was they ran on their platform. they are not taking responsibility for the fact that they were divisive political ads

also twenty five percent of the ads the there pointing to were seen by nobody. but finally even if russia if we assume argue endo that russia took out ads about such important issues why is this considered meddling. you know every country tries to influence somehow or other countries societies in fact the us probably is the most effective and aggressive country in the world at doing that you know we do that all the time through frankly you know hollywood movies. through our own media which appear throughout the world like c.n.n. is a great example of the voice of america which is even more blatant. i don't see an issue there again i think they're trying to make something out of nothing and dan speaking of hollywood movies let's talk about the highly promoted hollywood ad campaign with actor morgan freeman which accused russia of a lot alexion interference and claim russia was out war with the us what's your response to that ad campaign we have about a minute left yeah well it's completely disgusting i mean for someone like morgan freeman who is well respected in

bill: the battle is heating up. it is now a war over ads. wait until you see what one side is saying about the other side. that and halloween fast approaching. how about this costume from party city stirring up all kinds of controversy. trick or trump? we have all the sports, your headlines and dan zarrow will have the weather. it is getting cold! i am bill spadea. this is "chasing news." on monday. a federal judge made a decision that will have neg tef impact on another bob menendez and the defense team and tried to got the brook ry charges dismiss. no go says the judge precept your case and this is going to go to the jury for all the details and jones has the story. reporter: judge william in the senator bob men mendez bribery trial did he nis the defense's request to dismiss the bribery charges saying the jury will decide whose version of what happened over didn't happen. he add the burden of the proof is still on the government. that this is bribery and the defense denies the charms and the judge said, that is why this is going through th

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and facebook says they are unlikely to release the ads publicly trying to protect public information the public may not see what was in the ads, we may have to rely on descriptions as well as where they were targeted and designed to help the election outcome and designed to help president trump. >> i don't see why they don't release the ads? what if they do, what privacy? >> that's a great question. facebook has not gotten a clear explanation, other than they said they are trying to protect user information in not releasing these publicly. but they will get a lot of pressure. already getting pressure to release the ads. and specifically mike conley does believe that those asds should be released so we'll see if they pressure them or do it themselves. >> thanks very much. on capitol hill. let's bring in our specialist, phil mud, i'll start with you. how did you interpret the comments from the chairman, ranking memory fusing to close the books on the collusion aspect of this probe? >> he has to do that. let's go back to last summer when we saw information about donald trump junior, ema

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. >> people who are being used in the ads as well. s isn't a frivolous thing. and many of us who are interested in the public knowing who is advertising, and by the way, it's not legal for a foreign government to interfere in our election. that's a whole other thing as an in kind contribution. they're subtle about how they do it. but nonetheless, one who works closely with our tech community and one who wants the ads to be identified, i see the balance that we have to have. but thank you for your questions. >> all right. let's take a break. a lot of people online are saying what about puerto rico? we're going to discuss it at the cnn taun hall with leader nancy pelosi right after this quick break. [applause] this is electricity. ♪ this is a power plant. this is tim barckholtz. that's me! this is something he is researching at exxonmobil: using fuel cells to capture carbon emissions at power plants. this is the potential. reducing co2 emissions by up to 90%... while also producing more power. this could be big. energy lives here. direct

but first, let me start with the story about dove. take a look at this ad. this is a dove soap ad. some people are crying foul saying its fine even racist. ashley johnson has the full story. reporter: there is outcrying on social media for people to boycott dove after the company posted this video which many say is racist. in the 30 second video you see black woman remove the shirt revealing the white woman who takes off the skin colored top and medium complexion woman pops up. the image is confusing when because when you put it into the context of the video it makes sense on the im madge alone, it is sensitive and triggering as well for black women to see that and you know, and a black woman turning into a white woman somehow and that black skins dirty and that white skin is pure and fresh and a martive especially the soap industry since the 19th century. >> arsenio hall tweeted i bet mike pence and donald trump were shored in dove soap this morning. i am taking a knee tz the barbed ivory. another tweet says let's be clear. dove knew what they were doing. with theracys ad, soap com

you don't see answer that either but think about the ads shown to millions of human beings every day. ok this is literally a promotion for the death of humankind my. baby is bragging about it. then this would be like if it can be very important billboards it said tired of oklahoma general building. clemency rule and does stephen hawking said selves he says we are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible we could become like venus with a temperature of two hundred fifty degrees and raining sulfur europe as it that's from stephen hawking all that guy does is think all right that you know you guys think and occasionally go to a strip club. seriously he's apparently an industry of blogs which means that man's list of interests is rather eclectic the. point is these ads are selling the death of the planet due us and if we're allowing them to do that. we deserve to be wiped out we are all right we have our debts we did everything we could to for through our demise this is this is like of steve jobs of blade ads in there's a whole promoting cancer every day just l

here's a look at the ad. showed a black woman wearing a brown t-shirt, removing her top to reveal a white woman in a lighter top. another image shows the white woman removing her shirt to show a woman of apparently asian descent. by sunday, dove's facebook and twitter pages were filled with a litany of backlash from consumers. dove took the ad down and issued this apology, "an image we recently posted on facebook missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully. we deeply regret the offense that it caused." some comments say the apology is weak. others say the ad is so offensive they're never going to buy dove again. >>> 5:22. less pain at the pump. your morning commute will cost you less this morning as gas prices are dropping. landon dowdy is here with the cnbc business news. the reason behind the decline? tell us more. >> reporter: yes, that is right. prices at the pump are continuing to fall. an industry survey shows the average price of regular unleaded dropped seven cents in the past two week

some of the facebook ads cut in a political direction. st of the facebook ads were really just designed to sew discord. the splenlgs communiintelligenc concluded back the january that the russians had three objects. yes, it was about helping trump and hurting hillary, but more fundamentally, it was about withering away our democracy and sewing discord. and that's really what the gravity of these ads on facebook were attempting to do. i think people will be repelled by them and also recognize to the degree anybody still has a question about this, and evidently there are some in the white house who still do, russia is not our friend, does not mean us well, and in fact, means to tear us apart. >> speaking of democracy, on the issue of freedom of the press, today in the oval office, president trump said he believes media outlets, mainstream, major news organizations make up their sources, following a tweet earlier in the day. he put this up on twitter. with all of the fake news coming out of nbc and the networks, at what point is it appropriat

business perfect allowing ads. >> how the facebook ads were used to divide americans hi david. >> glad to be here. >> flood you have here. mark zuckerberg after election said i don't think facebook influenced out cot of election. what exactly did facebook do here. >> this has absolutely been an evolution right after the election when he said this is caisy this idea that this kind of information fake news could have nruned outcome of the election. that is still reached a climax three weeks ago and roughly 3,000 ads purchased by a russian farm and they handed as you said can confirm they're in hand for senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee and judiciary committee. it's been a revolution for facebook. >> what kind of az what sort of was the company putting o out. >> we learned about the ads and one major theme they folk ised not so much on vote this candidate but issues deviceive for americans. so issues around racial tensions and gun rights and the common theme they're mrlly contentious issues. >> and black lives matter. >> plaque lives matter h