You can decide after my round of questioning whether it was a graceful presence, but thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here.
There's a lot I want to explore, but the time is limited so I'll try to keep it tight and bright and follow the chain of events of, say, the interference or the attempted corruption—or successful corruption—of the U.S. election and the Brexit vote.
You talked about accountability, Mr. Kint, in your last piece. Does the chain start with access, illegal or otherwise, to the databases that parties hold on citizens? Parties collect an enormous amount of information about voters, voting intent and location, potentially income and preferences, and that information, once hacked—because there was not sufficient security there—was then allowed to be weaponized through the social media platforms. You talked, in your last comment, about accountability toward Facebook.
This is a life-threatening event for that company. Trust is important to any company, particularly social media. What has the response been like since that line was proven, the hack of the DNC and the Republicans, the targeted lies that were then spread through that election, and Facebook not being accountable to its users for its security?