Information & Ethics committee  Sure. Compliance with laws all around the world is essential. We want to be thoughtful partners in complying with the laws of different lands, absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. As the town square, we want people to be able to participate safely in public conversation.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, the accuracy of information is of utmost importance. The community notes—

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. Abuse and harassment have no place in a town square.

Information & Ethics committee  We'll continue to rigorously enforce all of our policies that help keep them safe, especially minors.

Information & Ethics committee  Child sexual exploitation has no place on X, and we're working to make it the most inhospitable place for people who want to distribute child sexual abuse materials. Over the last year, we've been more aggressive in our enforcement of such material on the service, restricting the search for this material, increasing our training for agents to make reports to the cyber tip line, and automating our process for reporting to the cyber tip line for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the United States, which acts as a global clearing house for tip lines in different jurisdictions.

Information & Ethics committee  You're welcome.

Information & Ethics committee  There are a couple of interventions that are applicable here. First is our civic integrity policy. Our civic integrity policy targets four areas of potential violations: misleading information that could be misleading about how to participate in an election; misleading information that could intimidate people from participating; information that could suppress the vote; and false affiliations, so impersonation.

Information & Ethics committee  Users who are under 18 or who did not include a birthdate on their profile are restricted from viewing such content.

Information & Ethics committee  If I may, I will pass that to my colleague Josh, who is the privacy counsel.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll allow my colleague Josh to add to this. We do keep track of lawful requests for user information from governments. We don't have that information in front of us today, but yes, law enforcement do have a particular portal where they can make lawful requests for user data or potential content removal, according to lawful order.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. There are, around the world, a variety of different laws when it comes to consent and age restrictions. Sometimes they vary by state here in the United States. We welcome the opportunity to engage on any potential legislation—

Information & Ethics committee  As you may imagine, X is not the platform of choice for teens. We do allow, in the United States and Canada—with the exception of Quebec, which is over 14—the ability to use the service. We leave the decision of whether to restrict on the App Store to the App Store.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. My name is Wifredo Fernández. I serve as head of government affairs for the U.S. and Canada at X. I'm joined by my colleague Josh Harris, our lead privacy counsel for North America.