Information & Ethics committee  So sorry, sir, we're running out of time. I just want to say, if you don't have the answer to that question now—

Information & Ethics committee  —the company can write to us with it.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Could Facebook commit to the write to the committee to say—

Information & Ethics committee  —how many of those accounts that were deleted, those 3.3 billion, were sharing disinformation? The company is saying that they're more likely to be sharing disinformation than other sorts of accounts.

Information & Ethics committee  Finally, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal last year, Facebook announced that there would be a new feature for users to be able to clear their browser history. I understand that Facebook announced that this will launch later this year. This does seem to be a long per

Information & Ethics committee  I would just say, these sorts of functions are pretty widespread across the web. I think the fact that it's now been over a year since this was announced and that you can't even give a date this year when it will come into force is really poor.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I would just like to pick up on a couple of things that were touched on in this session. Mr. Potts, you mentioned briefly the changes to the Facebook Live policy as a result of the Christchurch attack. I understand that as a restriction on people who have broadcast

Information & Ethics committee  This is not in question. The fact-checkers recognize it's fake. You're saying it can stay there. Do you not see that what Facebook is doing is giving a green light to anyone in the world who wants to make a distorted or fake film about a senior politician, or maybe in the future

Information & Ethics committee  The issue here is to say that if someone is making a film, or slowing down a film or manipulating a film, to try to create the false impression that a senior public figure is not fit for office, then that is an attempt to undermine them and the office they hold. This is not a q

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry, but with all respect, what it shows is the simplicity of these issues, the simplicity that another company has taken, recognizing the same issues, the simple action to say that this is clearly fake, it's clearly distorted, it's there to undermine senior public figures and

Information & Ethics committee  My concern about this is that it sets a very dangerous precedent. Your colleague Monika Bickert said last week to CNN that basically Facebook's policy is that any political content, any disinformation content in relation to politics will not be taken down, that there would be not

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm going to direct my first question to the Facebook representatives. I'm sure you're aware that one of the principal concerns of members of this committee has been that deceptive information, deliberately and maliciously spread through the tools create

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Potts, we haven't got much time. I'd like you to answer the question you've been asked, not give a statement about Facebook's policies on misinformation or what else you might have done. I want you to answer the question as to why you, unlike YouTube, are not takin

Information & Ethics committee  I know you're down ranking it. Why aren't you taking the film down?

Information & Ethics committee  But this is content that I think is widely accepted as being fake. YouTube has taken it down. The fact-checkers that work with Facebook are saying it's fake, yet the video is allowed to remain and that video being there is far more powerful than any legal disclaimer that may be w