Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You're right that the threats are always evolving. As I mentioned a moment ago, I think we were slow as a company to spot the new types of threats that emerged out of the U.S. presidential election. Since then, we have spent significant resources and significant time, and have hired—we're doubling our security team—to try to address these things.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's hard to know. Sometimes I stare at the screen, and I'm not really sure who should go first or who should go second. I will address the substantive on this challenge of addressing misinformation online in a moment, but I think it is incumbent on all of us to be very wary of—and I'm sure that's not what you intend, sir—what others may interpret as potentially some form of censorship of what people can say.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will say a few things, if I may, Mr. Chair.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, sir. One of the cornerstones of being on Facebook is actually our authentic identity policy, which you may be aware of. If you're a private user of Facebook, you'll know that typically a Kevin Chan or a Michele Austin or a Nathan Cullen would in fact be themselves on Facebook.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I am not familiar with that number, but I would say that in our community standards, our transparency report that was just released, for Q1, we disabled about 583 million fake accounts, most within minutes of registration. The reason we're able to do that before any individual can actually find and report a fake account is that we're using artificial intelligence technology, a lot of which comes from the pioneering research in Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct. That's unique individuals.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Daily, I don't have the stat, but monthly, it's 23 million.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe so, although I don't have the numbers in front of me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, sir, we did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not exactly sure what terms to use that would be accurate, but I think it is absolutely an abuse of our terms and conditions and our app policy. It is obviously under investigation in Canada by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, sir.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do proactively address these issues. I want to be a bit careful because it's not really my.... I'm not the expert.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, no, and I would also say I'm not specifically the expert on election law in Ontario. I'm sure you have read it, as I have, with interest, as well. I think further down there is a bit of an explanation for how advertising should work in the election in Ontario, and how and what obligations are on third parties to register—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, sir, I can get into specifically some of the new initiatives we're piloting in the United States, but, generally, as we have done—including at the time when the Commissioner of Canada Elections and Facebook Canada did work for the 2015 election—we obviously respond to investigative requests from public authorities.