Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Tong. Just to quickly—

Information & Ethics committee  As you mentioned the fact-checkers, we work with over 50 fact-checkers internationally that are—

Information & Ethics committee  I think you're asking a philosophical question, sir. Should we remove or should we inform people that it is fake? We have taken the approach to inform people that it's fake, so they can understand why that video is on the platform and what other independent parties have considere

Information & Ethics committee  Sir, I understand your concerns, but I think your questions are the right ones and that they show the complexity of this issue and also show perhaps that the approach we are taking is working. You don't hear people—

Information & Ethics committee  Your opinion is right, and I obviously respect the opinion of YouTube as an independent company, but we're not hearing people talk about this video as if it were real. We're hearing people discuss the fact that it is fake and that it is on the platform, so on the question of whet

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry, sir. I can't see your name.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Erskine-Smith, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg have entrusted us to represent the company here today. We are subject matter experts in these areas, and we're more than happy for the opportunity to be here, but I do want to make—

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Collins. I'm happy to explain our approach to misinformation a bit more clearly for this committee. First, I want to be clear that we are taking action against that video—

Information & Ethics committee  We are aggressively down ranking that—

Information & Ethics committee  It is our policy to inform people when we have information on the platform that may be false, so they can make their own decisions about that content.

Information & Ethics committee  We are conducting research on our inform treatments. That is the treatment that shows that something is fake. For example, if someone wanted to share this video with their friends or if they have already shared it or when they see it in a newsfeed, they receive a message that say

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct. I think this is manipulated—

Information & Ethics committee  Chair, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. I'm Neil Potts. I'm a director with oversight of the development and implementation of Facebook's community standards. Those are our guidelines for what types of content are allowed on our platform