Facebook and Russia's Influence in the Presidential Elections

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 5, 2017

Scott Shane, national security reporter at The New York Times and author of Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone (Tim Duggan Books, 2015), discusses how Russian-linked Facebook ads exploited wedge issues in key states during the 2016 presidential election and the latest revelations.

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