Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You know, it's striking to me, with the Russia study that we're currently engaged in, how much of a crossover there is with our recently concluded IMVE study—especially foreign state actors' roles in helping sow disinformation. If you're causing that level of disturbance within a country's internal politics, of course it's going to cause a great amount of distraction.
Mr. Shull, in your opening remarks you talked about automated traffic and how we really need to step up and go after the bots. Ultimately, what I'm interested in as a parliamentarian is producing a comprehensive report with some solid recommendations for what the federal government can be doing.
Can you maybe expand on that and provide a specific recommendation on what you want to see the federal government do with regard to going after bots? We know from our previous studies that they help amplify a lot of that disinformation we heard about. Bots and troll farms are really trying to push all this stuff, which is causing a lot of havoc in our internal politics.