Thank you.
What started this whole investigation was the massive Facebook breach that led to Cambridge Analytica and the potential that that information undermined the Brexit vote. There was another Facebook breach of 50 million users. We have no idea. We're told not to worry. As far as they can tell, everything's fine.
As soon as I heard that, I thought, “Wow, thank God we have Facebook on the case. There's nothing to worry about here.”
When we had Facebook here, we were asking about the mass murders that happened in Myanmar. It's not the responsibility of Facebook that there were mass murders, but Facebook was accused time and time again of not responding to the misuse of their platform. Their response was something like, “We admit it, we're not perfect.” We're talking about the power of a platform to engage in mass killing.
We're talking about a lot of tweaks to a system that suddenly seems more powerful, more encompassing than domestic law, than anything we've dealt with in the past, and that seems to be moving beyond many jurisdictions with very little regard. Do you believe that platforms like Facebook, like Google, need to be regulated, or can we trust them to respond when there's enough outrage? Does there need to be antitrust action taken to break them up, since Facebook now controls Instagram, WhatsApp, and many other platforms? Google is the same.
What do you see in terms of holding these companies to account? Is it self-regulation? Is it antitrust? Is it some form of national or international regulation? I put that open.