Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, we take that very seriously, sir. Certainly trying to protect people and prevent real world harm is obviously paramount to what we do on our service. On specific cases like that, we have a set of community standards that I think makes very clear that things we can all agree on should not be on the service, so no hate speech, no incitement to violence, no pornography, no terrorist content.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. I do not know exactly, but I believe that it is possible that each federal party represented in the House of Commons has bought advertising on Facebook.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Our ad products have some functionality. If the individual, the party, or the organization chooses to, they're able to ask—for those who have expressed an interest in my advertisement—if they can reach that same audience again. To be very clear, you will never know who these individuals are.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, sir, just to be very clear—

Information & Ethics committee  Oh, I'm sorry. With respect to that, we treat all advertisers on Facebook equally, and they have access to the same products and the same services. I think I'll leave it at that.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, sir, for that question. Obviously, I think, just to roll back a bit, looking at what happened in the U.S. presidential election, we were clearly slow to react to this. We were slow to get on top of it. I want to assure you that we're now putting in all of our efforts to address this challenge head on.

Information & Ethics committee  It's based on the signals we receive, the things you may have liked on Facebook and interest you have expressed on Facebook. We try to have some estimation of what your stated interests may be, and through that you're going to get potential advertising because you're in a certain audience that potentially likes bikes, for example.

Information & Ethics committee  I am sorry, I did not hear the last sentence very well.

Information & Ethics committee  That do not use Facebook?

Information & Ethics committee  If I may, sir, just to back up, I think my colleague Rob was trying to get at that, but allow me to try. The history of Facebook, as you probably know, is that it didn't start as a business. It was a project of our CEO when he was a student, and the intent was very much, as you point out, to try to connect friends.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, sir, we are here to engage with you substantively. On the issue of regulation, I think our CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been very clear that we do not oppose regulation. I think we want the right kind of regulation, and I think—

Information & Ethics committee  If I may sir—

Information & Ethics committee  There are some other things that I wish to add with respect to regulation. I think maybe Rob would have some views on the specific question that you have with respect to privacy regulation. I just want to point out to the committee, so that people have this in mind, that I think for a lot of the things, including election integrity, which you touched on, Mr.

Information & Ethics committee  Sir, I'm not aware of the point that you just raised. I'm not familiar with the point you say you've just learned.