Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I think this is a very important issue, Mr. Brassard. I'd be happy to provide Monsieur Villemure with the definition of sexually explicit material that we use in our community standards and what we remove.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Green. Again, we've developed more than 30 new tools and features to support safe and positive experiences for teens and their families, so—

Information & Ethics committee  We've developed that over the last couple of years in particular, Mr. Green, but it dates back further than that. These tools I'm referencing now.... For instance, we set teens' accounts to “private” when they join Instagram or Facebook. We prevent adults they don't follow from sending them messages.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, a lot of these tools were developed recently, in the last couple of years. Youth safety, of course, was a priority long before that, but the tools I am talking about have been developed recently.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for that question. I'll turn it over to my colleague Mr. Gleicher.

Information & Ethics committee  Monsieur Villemure, we do think we keep people informed with the credible information we have on our platforms. Additionally, we would be more than happy to bring news content back to our platforms. We believe that we provide a great deal of marketing and distribution value to local news publishers.

Information & Ethics committee  We have totally overhauled our privacy practices in the last number of years, Monsieur Villemure. We really embed privacy considerations at the front end of the design of all of our products and services now. We can go through that in great detail for you if you'd like. Privacy is one of the key considerations now in building anything we offer to the public.

Information & Ethics committee  Monsieur Villemure, we do not allow sexually explicit material on our platforms. We remove it when we identify it, and we report out on those removal efforts. Through our transparency centre, you can see how many pieces of content we've removed—

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for raising this really important issue, Mrs. Vecchio. Facebook significantly restricts the display of nudity or sexual activity on our platforms. We don't allow it. In fact, we remove sexual imagery to prevent the sharing of non-consensual or underage content as well.

Information & Ethics committee  Listen, we think youth safety is a really key priority for us. We've developed over 30 new tools and features to support safe and positive experiences for teens on our platforms. I'll just run through some of these very quickly.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Green, look, we do our best with age verification and with the tools we have available. We remove accounts that don't meet the age standard when we find out that they are underage. Listen, I'm not—

Information & Ethics committee  We disagree with that, Mr. Green. Look, mental health is a complex, individualized issue impacted by a variety of societal and emotional factors. As—

Information & Ethics committee  —many experts in the field say, it's wrong and even irresponsible to suggest that a single factor is the cause of trends in teen mental health—

Information & Ethics committee  I would suggest this, Monsieur Villemure. We have heard this from local publishers as well. We are a very different platform from Google. We do not scrape news content from the Internet or aggregate it in our search results. It has very little commercial value to Facebook or Instagram.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.