Yes. I believe it's unethical to advertise with social media companies if we have real concerns about data harvesting and illicit foreign interference.
Last year, the government spent a record $141 million on advertising, which was more than twice what the government spent on the administration of the Access to Information Act, and that included almost $2 million on TikTok.
It's really difficult to attend a committee hearing where there are all these concerns about TikTok's practices but then see the government throw money at TikTok, which, in my view, is an implicit endorsement of those practices that we're seeking to critique. I do believe, just to clarify and to make this point clear, that this concern applies to all social media companies.
I was very pleased that the government stopped advertising on Meta over the summer, but that was in retaliation for Meta's conduct with the Online News Act, so that was a bit of a different measure, but even as retaliatory, I support it.