Dr. Janil Puthucheary:

I apologise to the other members of the panel, but I am directing my questions to Dr. Bickert, as have all of my colleagues. I welcome her comments concerning Facebook being committed to addressing the issue of co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour. I would like to clarify that my understanding of how this functions is correct, however, and perhaps we could use the example given by Ms Cadwalladr and some others this morning concerning the upcoming British elections. I refer to a situation where the authorities are potentially concerned about co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour as an attempt to alter the British elections in the near future and Facebook is made aware of this information through the security services, government agencies, think tanks, academics and-or voluntary organisations. Ultimately, however, it would be Dr. Bickert's team that would then decide whether to act on evidence of co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour. The execution and timing of that decision might affect the British election. Is that correct?