Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Wednesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes.
The Democratic candidate for president also answered a few audience questions during the midday event, sponsored by technology site Recode, in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Click the video above to watch Clinton's appearance at the Code Conference.
During an on-stage interview, the former first lady and New York senator suggested that President Donald Trump and his allies were using Twitter and other social media to sidetrack Americans' attention from the investigations into the influence of Russia during the presidential campaign or the Republican health care bill.
"You can't let Trump and his allies be a diversion. They are a threat," Clinton said. "They want to influence your reality. And that... is what we're up against and we can't let that go unanswered, whether it's on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere else."
She also addressed an overnight tweet from Trump that said: "Despite the constant negative press covfefe."
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"I thought it was a hidden message to the Russians," she quipped.
Clinton talked at length about Russian involvement in the 2016 contest, referring to U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia not only meddled in the election, but did so to help Trump defeat Clinton.
With multiple investigations underway, she asked, "How did they know what messages to deliver? Who told them? Who were they coordinating with, or colluding with?"
To pull it off, Russians would have needed to be "guided by Americans," she added later.
In other remarks, she faulted Trump as he seemed close to pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord. An announcement on the agreement is scheduled for Thursday.
To back out, she said, would be "throwing out the economic opportunities that being part of the Paris agreement provide for the United States."
Clinton has been speaking at events like the recent Children's Health Fund benefit, where she lashed out at President Donald Trump's spending plan, saying it showed an "unimaginable level of cruelty" -- a charge she repeated in a speech Friday at Wellesley College.
She's addressed gatherings for Planned Parenthood, for an LGBT group in New York, for the Society of Irish Women in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She presented awards to Colombian peacemakers at Georgetown, and made a surprise appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival to discuss saving elephants from poachers in Africa.
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