Very practical terms. Were in the middle of another election. This election in georgia could determine, in fact, which Party Controls the United States senate. Im concerned that both of your companies are in fact backsliding or retrenching, that you are failing to take action against dangerous disinformation, exactly the same kind of Voter Suppression tactics that existed in the last election and that you are in fact reducing content modification. The fighting words and hate speech in the last election could inflame violence and send poll workers into hiding, discourage people from coming to the polls. We have to expect the same kinds of maligned tactics, in fact they are already visible and im going to ask, mr. Chairman, that these posts and tweets be entered in the record. If theres no objection. That are aimed at delegitimizing the election in january. My question to you is, will you commit to the same kind of robust, content modification playbook in this coming election, including factchecking, labeling, reducing the spread of misinformation, and other steps, even for politicians in the runoff elections ahead . Senator, our policy is to have a similar approach in the upcoming Georgia Special elections that we took during the general election. Mr. Dorsey . Yes, we do. We and we intend to learn from all of our experience with this election and bring all of that learning Going Forward to make it more robust. During the past election there was rampant disinformation on social media in spanishspeaking sites, repeating qanon conspiracies and false claims of election rigging. In my view, you need to do better. Will you committee to taking steps to improve content modification for spanishspeaking communities before the georgia run off . Senator, this is something that were already working on and working on ahead of the general election. We have multiple factcheckers who focus on the spanish as a language and we made sure that we translated our Voter Information Center into spanish which we showed at the top of facebook and instagram to everyone who uses those products in spanish in the u. S. Those are a couple of the steps weve taken and were committed to this. Yes, we will, in partnership with latinx civil rights groups. I would like to know, and perhaps you can submit to me in one week, what additional steps youre going to take. This georgia runoff is under way and, as ive indicated, ive seen a backsliding and retrenchment that is very deeply troubling that have enabled the spread of this disinformation, the restarting of certain algorithms, for example, that promote or amplify misinformation is very, very troubling and i think i want to know within a week what additional steps were taking to enhance the efforts to stop this kind of amplification and spread. Let me ask about Facebook Community standards which ban language that, quote, incites or facilities serious violence. On november 5th, steve bannon in a Facebook Live video called for be headings of dr. Fauci and fb toward president trump. Twitter banned bannon for these remarks. You removed the video, mr. Zuckerberg, but on thursday you reportedly told facebook employees that bannon had not violated enough policies that he should be banned from facebook. My question to you, how many times is steve bannon allowed to call for the murder of government officials before facebook suspends his account . Senator, as you say, t content in question did violatet our policies ande we took not automatically mean your content your account gets taken down and the number of an strikes varies depending on the amount the type of offense. So, people are posting terrorist content or Child Exploitation content, then the first time they do it, then we will take down their account. For other things, its multiple. Id be happy to follow up ltiple afterwards. We try not to disclose these e you took down his account . Im sorry, i didnt hear that. Will you commit to taking cm down that account, steve that bannons . Bannon senator, no. Thats not what our policies would suggest we should do. In this case. Record according to the internal records that are on record now,f leaked by nbc news, facebook hat removed fact checks and forgiven infractions for conservative ve pages and pundits such as breitbart, donald trump jr. , eric trump, gateway pundit based on a fear of accusations of ions bias. As. Has facebook avoided penalizingf or factchecking conservative pages that had violated its its policies based on concerns of political bias and allegations of bias . Senator, no, we havent done that. And i think that those reports mischaracterize the actions we take. Im not aware of any instance where we have overturned a fact check specifically. And certainly no action like that would be taken for the reasons that youre saying. Som what we do sometimes is if ia apply some judgment on whether the repeat offender policies would render too harsh of a poi penalty, but thats different from overturning a specific fact check and not done for it the t reasons you said. Well, im very concerned at, that, in fact, facebook seems to have a record of making accommodations and caving to conservative pressure. To and the president has tried to use an executive order on eat section 230 to, again, bully or brow beat and exert pressure ons you and others in this industry. Theyre, in effect, working the rest and winning. E let me ask you about antitrust issues. In 2013, facebook bought a ed virtual private records network that claimed to protect users privacy. In fact, access about its private users, provided faceboo. With unparalleled ability to track potential competition. Acek i want to know whether facebook used data from onavo when it decided to purchase whatsapp in 2013 . I think that was one of the sources we looked at but it i dont think it would have t taken onavo to understand that whatsapp was a great product. Wp and i dont think that was he determinative in my decision to pursue that. The house antitrust report p says the data was used to determine was, quote, whatsapp d was killing facebook messenger, end quote. Ook my time has almost expired. Let me say finally that antitrust action by the federal trade commission is long i bel overdue. I believe that Decisive Action is necessary, including very likely breaking up facebook as a remedy. All options ought to be on the table, including divestment of instagram and whatsapp. On the abuse of competition must ee end. Mr. Chairman, i ask the three letters from civil rights groups, from hate speech on sap. Facebook and youtube and letter of coalition of protection childrens on child sexual abuse