Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As lawmakers, we have no doubt that Facebook is doing everything it can to remain a valuable platform. As an analogy, nuclear medicine has valuable uses, but if the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could be used to make bombs.
Facebook has become a very large company. You said that you have put measures in place and that you have hired 10,000 to 20,000 people to make your platform safe. With more than 2 billion users, a number that is certainly going to increase exponentially in the coming months because things are moving so quickly, Facebook will be one of the most popular social media on the planet.
As lawmakers, our fear is that you may lose control of your platform despite having put in place all possible measures. In fact, there could be very smart but ill-intentioned people who would like to use your platform illegitimately, for purposes other than those we are familiar with today.
Do you believe that you will be able to regain control of the situation in the short term? As lawmakers, we are not necessarily going to be giving you four, five or 10 years to prove it. You have to face major challenges and you have a heavy responsibility to act now. Are you going to move quickly?