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Information & Ethics committee It sounds like the heart of it is having regulators who have statutory powers to go into the tech companies and investigate whether they feel the appropriate information is being disclosed.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee That would be both parties and the platforms that are providing the advertising.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee I don't know if the audio feed to Malta is working.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Thank you. My first question is for Ellen Weintraub. You mentioned dark money in your opening statement. How concerned are you about the ability of campaigns to use technology, particularly blockchain technology, to launder impermissible donations to campaigns by turning them in
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Thank you. Let me put my first question to all three of the witnesses.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee You wouldn't be able to use the live product.
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Would that be at a maximum of 90 days suspension?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Okay. What about people who have shared serious content that has been broadcast through Facebook Live? They're not the broadcaster themselves, but they've shared that footage with others on the platform. Is there any action taken against them?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Did people who you believe maliciously shared the footage have their accounts cancelled?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Would you be able to write to us to tell us how many accounts have been disabled as a consequence of this?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee These changes obviously take retrospective action against people who have done it. Is there anything Facebook has done to stop something like Christchurch from happening again, in terms of the way it is broadcast and shared through your systems?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Okay. I'm not sure I'm clear on that, but there are a couple of more things. You've said quite a lot about the deletion of inauthentic accounts. Facebook, I believe, said that there were 3.3 billion inauthentic accounts deleted over the previous six months. That is considerably
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Monika Bickert said that the inauthentic accounts are far more likely to be sharing disinformation, so of those 3.3 billion accounts, how many of those were actively sharing disinformation?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins
Information & Ethics committee Would Facebook be able to write to the committee with the answer to that question?
May 28th, 2019Committee meeting
Damian Collins