NEW: No sign foreign actors exploiting US racial divides or #COVOD19 on @Twitter
"We haven't found evidence of concerted platform manipulation by foreign actors in either of those areas" @Policy Dir @nickpickles tells House Intelligence Committee
"We have seen a change in tactics" per @Twitter's @nickpickles "Activity particularly around #COVID, geopolitics but also the issues in the #UnitedStates around particularly policing have transferred into state-controlled media"
"Those media entities and those government accounts are engaging" per @nickpickles "That shift from platform manipulation to overt state assets is something we've observed... This remains an evolving security challenge"
"We haven't seen coordinated inauthentic behavior on the part of foreign governments, particularly targeting voting systems or how to vote in the #UnitedStates" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
"We have not seen foreign actors engage in coordinated inauthentic behavior around the [#GeorgeFloyd] protests yet" per @ngleicher "We have teams that are proactively hunting for that"
"People who are on our platforms, users, they don't want to see clickbait. They don't want to see the type of divisive content that you're describing" @Facebook's @ngleicher tells @RepJimHimes "If we were to show only that, users wouldn't want to engage..."
"...that's why we take steps for example not to recommend groups that are repeatedly sharing information that crosses certain lines" adds @ngleicher
#Russia-linked actors "returning to techniques from the 60s, 70s or 80s in attempts to evade or get around the protections we put in place" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
More from @ngleicher on #Russia:
"We did a takedown of a network linked to Sputnik news, a state media organization out of Russia,that ran seemingly independent news organizations across #Europe, representing themselves as independent..in fact they were all centrally controlled"
"That's the type of behavior that we enforce against" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
re #Russia
.@Google @Twitter @Facebook tells @RepSwalwell conversations with @FBI about #misinformation "routine", "incredibly regular", "periodic"
FB's @ngleicher adds information about foreign interference also shared w/law enforcement before public disclosure
"Just yesterday we began blocking ads from state media, including from #Russia, coming into the #UnitedStates ahead of the election" per @Facebook's @ngleicher
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