Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Davidson, you mentioned earlier in a reply to Mr. Baylis that with regard to political ads, your first preference was for company action to promote transparency. I'd like to highlight two instances in which it seems that company action has fallen short. In April 2018, Facebo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It does not seem that it's a technical problem per se, because the researchers flagged that they used the Russian IP address to access Google's Russian advert platforms and supply the details of the Internet research agency, and they went as far as to pay for the adverts usi

Information & Ethics committee  Definitely, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  You used the term earlier about having guardrails.

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's important to prevent all of us from dropping into the abyss of disinformation.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Chair, thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  We also heard testimony yesterday. I think many of the grand committee members had spoken with businesses who talked about examples around Sri Lanka or Nancy Pelosi. It seemed that it was more about putting information out there, freedom of reach rather than real protection of fr

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have some questions for Mr. Alan Davidson. I was reading the Mozilla Manifesto with interest. I guess I had some time. I think there are 10 principles in your manifesto. Specifically on principle 9, it reads that “Commercial involvement in the developmen

Information & Ethics committee  Also, I think there was an Internet health report that Mozilla Foundation put out, and I'd like to thank your organization, a non-profit working for the public benefit. I think the Cambridge Analytica scandal was referred to, and your report says that the scandal is a symptom of

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  I would like to come back to the example of Sri Lanka, with Mr. Neil Potts. Mr. Potts said earlier that he was not aware that the incendiary videos had been sent up to Facebook. I would like to highlight that in an article in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hilmy Ahamed, vice-presi

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Similarly, can I then confirm in the same spirit that if Facebook were aware of a video being falsified—and we discussed the case of Nancy Pelosi earlier—Facebook would then carry a clarification that they are aware the video is falsified?

Information & Ethics committee  Your disclaimer would actually say that you understand that the information contained is false.

Information & Ethics committee  This would be circulated to all who would have seen the original video.