I think TikTok has profoundly different uses from other platforms. It is primarily a platform where children and young adults can put up zany videos for 15 seconds of themselves doing obscure and nutty things, but in addition to that, it obviously serves an incredibly unusual purpose in distorting reality for 1.5 billion people at a massive scale.
This appears to be deliberate, and that makes it unparalleled, because, where you can have mob mentality and you can have prevailing political interests that are somewhat recognizable on the platforms that most people inhabit, here you have something that's quite distinct. It's a different animal. The things it produces are of a higher scale, and we're seeing far different outcomes psychologically for its users. Those concerns were crucial in us speaking to Congress and also to the Senate as they passed legislation in the United States that arrived at this conclusion: that there was something anomalous about the behaviour of the platform that merited significant concern.
Now, the process for managing that is imperfect, because we still don't know how to gather and make deliberative decisions about these large-scale platforms and how they're influencing us, but the actions of parliamentarians have to be informed by sober knowledge about the threats that are growing on these platforms. That is especially the case when those threats are coming from near enemies. My sense is that—