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May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  For the specific video, sir, I'm happy to follow up after this hearing, and to come back to show you exactly that timeline. When we were made aware of the attack of the individual, we quickly removed—

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, ma'am. That's correct. If we are aware, we would remove the videos. With this specific case, I don't have the data in front of me to ensure we were put on notice, but if we were aware, these videos would have been removed.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  When one of our third party, fact-checking partners.... We have over 50 now who are international, global and that adhere to the Poynter principles. They would rate that as being false. We would then put up the disclaimer. We would also aggressively reduce that type of information and also signal to users who are not only engaging with it but trying to share, or have shared, that it has been rated false.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  It would have a link or a header to the article from one of the fact-checkers that disputes and claims it is false.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  If you are engaging with it currently, you would see it, whether at the bottom in your newsfeed or perhaps on the side if you are on desktop. If you have shared it, you would be informed that there has been an action disputing the validity of the content.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Lucas, I fully agree with you about honesty and—

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  —and to impugn somebody's integrity, it is a strong action.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Lucas. I'm sorry, but I'm not quite clear on what happened during that hearing. I can try to find out exactly what was presented and what evidence was given, but I, unfortunately, don't recall what was given.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  We are aware of Cambridge Analytica. Again, we don't know, I guess, what attestations were made.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, Mr. Lucas.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  I think that you just named one. Mr. Lucas, I don't work on those issues directly, the privacy issues. Those go through a separate team. I do want to say that we are committed, as Mr. Chan said, to getting back to you. I've had the pleasure of giving testimony in evidence before a committee recently and—

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Zimmer, if I was inconsistent, I apologize, but I don't believe that I answered the question differently. If I had a transcript, obviously I would flag where my discrepancy was and correct it immediately. Again, on misinformation that is not leading to immediate harm, we take an approach to reduce that information, inform users that it is perhaps false, as well as remove inauthentic accounts.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts

Information & Ethics committee  If it is the case that someone is misrepresenting a member of government, we would remove that if it is flagged. I will follow up with you after this hearing and make sure that we have that information and get it back to the team so that we can act swiftly. Maybe perhaps to address a few of the other conversations here, there's been this kind of running theme that Mr.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

Neil Potts