BREAKING: Zuckerberg Seems to be Announcing Harsh Anti-Russian Censorship Measures ...

Russia Insider,

21 September, 2017

He was live with this exactly one hour ago. We haven't even finished watching the 8 minute video, but we thought you should know about it.

Our initial impression a few minutes into it is that this guy seems very uptight and nervous for someone supposedly so 'accomplished'. Whatever could be the reason why.

It's almost like someone is standing screen left pointing a gun at him or something. Def a hostage video feeling about it ...

Russia Insider editor Charles Bausman made this comment under the video ...

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Update #2 from Charles Bausman:

Hmmm my update #1 seems to have been on target, fans are writing in telling me my comment is blocked on iphones, although I can still see it on my android phone, and on this page, but it isnt clickable.

Well, good thing I took a screen shot - we'll just keep it here in case the original does go down ...  Now read my update below - folks we have to do something about these people - who asked them to tell us what we can and cannot think?

I wonder if 'moron' was politically insensitive to, well - morons? -, like Zuckerberg? Geez that guy is cucky.

Update #1 from Charles Bausman:

We've been sounding the alarm at Russia Insider about this encroaching censorship - which is very, very real. Out videos get blocked on YT, Google artificially lowers our searches and won't include us in 'Google News', we are shadow-banned on Twitter.

The need to regulate and rein-in these modern day robber-barons is well upon us, and RI is going to be making this a major theme going into the Fall season.

If you haven't yet, please support our Fall fund drive - when the truth is on your side, it really doesn't take much resources to expose these people for what they are.

We already have them on the run - that is why they are pulling these moves. As long as we hold firm, this will not save them!

Thank you for your support!!

Facebook agrees to release information about Russian-purchased ads to Congress

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https://www.rt.com/usa/404139-facebooks-zuckerberg-to-provide-russia-congress/

Facebook has reached agreement with the US Congress to release the ads 

purchased by a Russian agency during the 2016 presidential campaign, the social network said in a statement.

"After an extensive legal and policy review, we’ve concluded that sharing the ads 

we’ve discovered with Congress, in a manner that is consistent with our 

obligations to protect user information, will help government authorities complete 

the vitally important work of assessing what happened in the 2016 election," 

Facebook said in its blog.

“We want to do our part,” the company said, adding that “Congress is best place to use the information we and others provide.”

In a separate statement, Facebook co-founder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is “actively working with the US government on its ongoing investigations into Russian interference.”

“When we recently uncovered this activity, we provided that information to the special counsel. We also briefed Congress – and this morning I directed our team to provide the ads we've found to Congress as well,” Zuckerberg said.

The internal probe by Facebook continues and may well have uncovered more 

information, he said.

“We are looking into foreign actors, including additional Russian groups and other former Soviet states, as well as organizations like the campaigns, to further our understanding of how they used our tools,” the Facebook chairman said.

Political advertising on Facebook will become more transparent “in the coming 

months,” Zuckerberg said.

“Not only will you have to disclose which page paid for an ad, but we will also make it so you can visit an advertiser's page and see the ads they're currently running to any audience on Facebook,” he said.

Google says it found no trace of Russia’s interference in US election on its 

ad platforms

Investments into security and sharing of data on “bad actors” with other tech giants will also be boosted, among other measures, Zuckerberg dded.

Earlier in September, Facebook said that it had launched a search for Russian political ad purchases in relation to claims of Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 presidential 

race.

The company said that it discovered around 3,000 ads purchased to the tune of 

$100,000 between June 2015 and May 2017 and connected to 470 "inauthentic" 

accounts and pages, which might have been linked to the alleged Russian 

operation.

Facebook stopped short of accusing Russia of election meddling, saying that its 

analysis "suggests these accounts and pages were affiliated with one another 

and likely operated out of Russia."

The company also admitted that the "vast majority of ads run by these accounts 

didn't specifically reference the US presidential election, voting, or a particular 

candidate."

The company has since then come under increased pressure from Congress to release the information about the ads.

Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr announced his plans to 

hold a public hearing next month about the connection between Facebook and 

other social media platforms and the Russia investigation.

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Another tech giant, Google, said that it had failed to unearth any facts that would 

implicate Moscow in exploiting its advertising tools to manipulate the US elections.

“We’re always monitoring for abuse or violations of our policies and we’ve seen 

no evidence this type of ad campaign was run on our platforms,” Google said in a statement.

Russia has repeatedly denied any allegations it interfered in the election 

campaign. In an interview to filmmaker Oliver Stone in June, Russian President 

Vladimir Putin, for his part, accused the US in meddling in Russia’s latest presidential elections of 2012 by campaigning on the side of the Russian opposition.