Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I'd actually pick up on a point that Mr. Khanna made. Something we have regularly seen, and something I have seen in many different roles, is that influence operations will try and land their content in front of a particular influencer, celebrity or politician in the hope that they will then amplify it themselves.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Housefather, I'm not sure if the committee members are aware, but I no longer work at Meta. I have not worked there for a couple of months. When I was working there, I was a threat investigator specializing in influence operations. I do not know about the ins and outs of the algorithmic methods there.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for being here. I would like to point out that I am speaking today in my personal capacity as somebody who has been studying covert influence operations for a long time. I've been doing this job for a decade, and it's particularly welcome to be in a conversation like this here, because 10 years ago conversations like this were not happening.