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Minnesota Democrat Al Franken was especially...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSenators ripped Facebook, Twitter and Google for missing signs that advertisers with ties to Russia were exploiting their services to sway last year's presidential election.\u003cbr/\u003e              Minnesota Democrat Al Franken was especially outraged as he questioned Facebook's top lawyer Tuesday during a Senate subcommittee hearing into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. \u003cbr/\u003e              He demanded to know why Facebook couldn't figure out how an ad paid for in rubles had been purchased by a Russian account.\u003cbr/\u003e              Franken fumed, \"How could you not connect those two dots?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Colin Stretch, Facebook's general counsel, sheepishly admitted the company missed a key signal and should have had a \"broader lens.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              But he wouldn't commit to banning US political ads purchased in foreign currencies.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              POOL \u003cbr/\u003e              Washington DC - 31 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Following the election, the activity we've seen really continued in the sense that if you viewed the activity as a whole, we saw this concerted effort to sow division and discord. In the wake of the election and now President Trump's election, we saw a lot of activity directed at fomenting discord about the validity of his election.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              2. UPSOUND (English) Senator Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina: \"So this continued after his election?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              3. UPSOUND (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel: ++UNDER PREVIOUS SHOT++\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It continued until we disabled the accounts.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              4. Wide of hearing\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Did China run ads in the last election cycle that tried to impact our election?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              5. UPSOUND (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Not that I'm aware of, Senator.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Not that you're aware of. Did Turkmenistan?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"No Senator. Not that I'm aware of. We have --\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"How about North Korea? \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'm not aware of other foreign actors running the same sort campaign...\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"How could you be aware? I mean, this - you've got five million advertisers and you're going to tell me that you're able to trace the origin of all those advertisements. You're not telling me that, are you?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Senator the commitment we are making...\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"No, sir, I'm just asking about your ability. Not commitment. Can you do it today?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're not able to see beyond the activity we see on the platform. The technical signals that we get from an account, now we do think that the technical signals we see can be used to help us identify inauthentic behavior, but in terms of...\" \u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The truth of the matter is - I'm trying to get us down from la la land here. The truth of the matter is you have five million advertisers that change every month, every minute, probably every second. You don't have the ability to know who every one of those advertisers is, do you?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"To your question about seeing essentially behind the platform to understand if there are shell corporations, of course the answer is no, we cannot see behind the activity.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              8. Wide of hearing\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Coons, (D) Delaware: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Why has it taken Facebook 11 months to come forward and help us understand the scope of this problem, see it clearly for the problem it is, and begin to work in a responsible legislative way to address it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is a national security issue and it's one that we are taking very seriously. I know my colleagues here are taking very seriously and we do need to work together to make sure we understand the scope of the threat and we need to continue to work with law enforcement to make sure we're sharing information and expertise to really address this thoroughly.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Al Franken, (D) Minnesota: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Those are two data points - American political ads and Russian money, rubles. How could you not connect those two dots?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"In hindsight we should have had a broader lens. There were signals we missed and we are now focused...\" \u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Al Franken, (D) Minnesota: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Okay, people are buying ads on your platform with rubles. They're political ads. You put billions of data points together all the time. That's what I hear that these platforms do. They're the most sophisticated things invented by man, ever. Google has all knowledge that man has ever developed. You can't put together rubles with a political ad and go like, 'hmm, those two data points spell out something bad'?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Stretch, Facebook General Counsel:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Senator, it's a signal we should have been alert to and in hindsight it's one we missed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. 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