Russian content on Facebook may have reached 126 million users far more than first disclosed, inte

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5. My experience: I noticed something different, did a LOT of callouts and reports of bots.

I checked out the home pages of obviously provocative posts and reported or blocked them, decided not to click the Like button if they looked weird.

I picked up on this kind of invasion around 2011, dropped RT from my newsfeed three years ago.

There were times I thought Facebook was allowing manipulators, but didn't know enough to question Facebook; also, I trusted their judgment.

Maybe complaints and reports added up?

This isn't welcome news, but I won't be writing FB off because cyber threats have been pervasive in government and industry for at least ten years.

It shows the public an important lesson about tech capabilities. The Big Five -- Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter -- aren't going away, and I appreciate their attempts to be more responsible for the good and welfare of their home country.

They serve important functions beyond profit, so I support their efforts to clean up their internal business model because their business missions do much good in the world.