Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak to everybody's services everywhere. To be clear, we use machines and people to monitor ads that are submitted through our systems to make sure they are in compliance with our rules. In terms of the additional obligations, no, we were not able to meet them in this

Information & Ethics committee  They've given you extensive information on this front, but just to add a bit, yes, we are a different service, and while we knew regrettably that we would not be in a position to offer election advertising in this time, we would look to it in the future.

Information & Ethics committee  We are very different services with different features of various types.

Information & Ethics committee  In part, it's because things continue to change over time. It's a rapidly evolving space, both legally and in terms of our services. Therefore, in terms of exactly when it will be ready, we wouldn't want to put—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Correct.

Information & Ethics committee  If I understand the question correctly, it is simpler to take a more conservative approach, an approach that is more broadly restrictive than one that says, yes, we're going to validate that this is an election ad operating under the law, and so on and so forth.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we may be blocking it for a variety of reasons if it violates our policies.

Information & Ethics committee  There is a big difference between saying we're going to take, in general, a conservative approach here and saying, on the other hand, “I'm going to say clearly this is a legitimate election ad”, taking that further step.

Information & Ethics committee  The needs of implementing the law in the specific way it was written were prohibitive for us in this period of time to get it right, and if we're going to have election ads in the country, we absolutely need to and want to get it right. That was the decision we had to make here

Information & Ethics committee  We do not have the capability at this time to comply in fullness with that law.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not familiar with the particular cases you're talking about, but we do have strict guidelines about things like incitement to violence, or invasion of privacy and the like. If notified, and if we become aware of it, we would take action, if it's in violation of those guidelin

Information & Ethics committee  The issue of deepfakes.... Thanks for that question. It's a really important emerging issue. We have clear guidelines today about what content should be removed. If a deepfake were to fall under those guidelines, we would certainly remove it. We also understand this needs furthe

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very important question. The NetzDG is a complex law, but one of the pieces that is relevant here is that it calls out, I believe, 22 specific statutes that it governs.

Information & Ethics committee  I understand that, and it says, with respect to these 22 statutes, “Here is your turnaround time and your transparency reporting requirements, leading to the data you had.” I think part of what is important there is that it refers specifically to clear statutory definitions. Thes