Thank you, Chair.
During the study of the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook-AggregateIQ scandal, we have heard repeated recommendations from academics, from IT experts and from social media security experts that, on the basis of what happened in the Brexit referendum, where confected third parties controlled and targeted advertising buys on social media—and the same thing in the United States—there was a common recommendation that a political registry of advertising buys be set up so that one could see transparently what ads were purchased by the political parties or by third parties and how they were targeted.
I wonder if each of you could comment on what your party position might be towards that sort of registry, to show how your advertising buys in the writ period or perhaps even the pre-writ period of a campaign would be applied.