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We will go straight into the second panel. Somewould ask monica Background Information about the Senate Intelligence investigation into russian intelligence. Some of that work has been quite insightful for us and lead to us contacting facebook and asking for similar insight to be done as to when he as to whether there was any russian activity in the u. K. I want to ask about the information that facebook has provided. Is it correct to say that all the unit all the evidence so far and the number of people that were exposed to content creation disputed by the Internet Research agency in st. Petersburg, all of that announced so far comes from the analysis facebook did identifying payments made in ruples related to advertising around that content. Monica the information we gave to the committee in testimony is the best source of information for the details about that. Didhat testimony, colin speak to how facebook conducted that investigation. Payment in rubles was one of the signals. That
Contains it is something we understand why people are concerned about it. Its one of the reasons why the Electoral Commission approached us in october of last or and said we would like you to assess about whether or not there was indeed misinformation coming from another country. And we were keen to cooperate on that. We reported some findings from an initial investigation to chair the committee. I think its fair to say we havent done enough work having reflected on that. Is we wont be able to tell you until that work is completed. We are committed to telling the committee the outcome of those results. The one thing i would say is unlike the u. S. Election, we intelligence any reports that suggests there were downright russian interference using facebook involved in the brexit referendum. Different where there is an Intelligence Report demonstrating. Obviously the referendum was about the membership of the European Union Going Forward. Countries within the eu, not the u. K. , had more