Dr. Monika Bickert:

With respect to the specific advertisements mentioned, I would have to talk to colleagues to understand them. I am happy to follow up. In 2017, we introduced an advertisement library whereby we have brought unprecedented transparency to political advertising. Now when somebody runs a political advertisement on Facebook, people can see who is running the advertisement and we verify identity. We also make public the audience for that advertisement, the dates it ran, and any other advertisements that party is running.

It is not a free game for political advertisements. They must adhere to our advertisement standards, which are a step above our community standards. The community standards have measures such as a prohibition on hate speech and threats. The advertisement standards go higher and they are the standards that are applicable to any of the political advertisements that are run.