We've already talked about how the removal of news links certainly harmed many news entities by losing audiences. We've heard from other witnesses about the concern that filling that gap is hateful content or other kinds of content. There have been some reports that suggest some of what has filled that space are, frankly, memes, pictures of friends and things like that. It isn't that harmful.
I want to state this unequivocally, because Mr. Julian raised the issue of hate online and anti-Semitism. We need to be absolutely clear here. I've been outspoken on these issues. I've been targeted by Laith Marouf on these issues.
A year or so ago, a former member of this committee suggested that I was racist for raising questions around anti-Semitism. This is deeply personal for me and my community right now. We need action. We also need true accountability, with everyone willing to stand up and say so. Where that hasn't happened, I find it enormously troubling when those things take place.