Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that clarification. As I said, in that report what we were indicating that we were noticing was that there “could” be. We were seeing amplification, and that's what we look for—artificial amplification of content in the social media landscape. We were flagging the reality that there was that amplification, but in that report we were not able to ascertain whether it was directed by a foreign—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I could perhaps start on that one. Thank you for the question. Again, I'm going to start with the context of the elections. As this committee is familiar with, there was the Declaration on Electoral Integrity Online. That's a voluntary declaration that social media companies were encouraged to participate in.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to add to it, because the reference was to some of the reporting of the rapid response mechanism. Just to echo answers of other colleagues, we did see some of the activity, but in the reporting of the rapid response mechanism—again, we're looking for foreign threats—we were not able to verify whether the behaviour was directed by state, whether it was organic or whether it was an intermingling of the two.