Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to our witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Bateman, I want to tag on to some of the things Mr. Green brought up. I notice you have your publication there, proudly to your right. I think it's great that you are proud of that document. We're hoping to have some of the social media platforms here for this study, which would be very interesting.
As you know, social media platforms do everything they can to hold and maximize your attention for as long as possible. I think you said to Mr. Green that they're “maximizing people's time”. Of course, they use algorithms to place in the feed the content you are most likely to be interested in, focus on or interact with.
In your publication, you talk about the importance of—or maybe it's a recommendation—finding a way to change the way algorithms are used. I'm interested in your thoughts on how that's possible. Make us understand what that would look like, how it might help solve the problem and why it hasn't been studied by independent researchers yet.
Is it just beginning, or do you expect that to happen in the near term?