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View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2021-03-29 11:28
I will interpret that response as a no. So I have to conclude that you don't have any francophone moderators in Quebec. It was a simple question that you could have answered with yes or no, but you are telling me that you do not want to disclose this information. That's all right.
Mr. Chan, you remember the sad events in Christchurch. I was asking you if you control the content that goes out on your platform, because we're discussing what information Facebook allows, and you have some control over what is broadcast on your platform. For 17 minutes, the Christchurch killer broadcast his actions live on the Facebook platform.
Do you think you could have stopped that broadcast at that time?
Kevin Chan
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Kevin Chan
2021-03-29 11:29
We were able to detect it and remove it, ultimately, as you point out. Of course we regret the tragedy and we regret that we were not even faster. We have obviously learned a lot from that terrible incident, not just at Facebook. To be fair, we've worked across the sector to build systems and protocols—with governments as well—to ensure that the entire system actually works, not just on Facebook, but across companies, across platforms and with governments. We've built these protocols to move much faster should the regrettable and unfortunate thing happen again.
View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2021-03-29 11:29
So you have indeed acknowledged these events and you have tried your best to correct the situation to prevent it from happening again. That's what I'm hearing.
View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2021-03-29 11:30
All right.
I want to talk briefly about the phenomenon of disinformation. There was news last week that Facebook has made progress in fighting disinformation. You removed 1.3 billion fake accounts, if I'm not mistaken, in the last quarter of 2020.
Is that correct?
View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
View Martin Champoux Profile
2021-03-29 11:30
This is no small feat, and I congratulate you.
However, real accounts are still active. Last week, an article in La Presse pointed out that 12 people are responsible for 73% of the anti-vaccination content on Facebook. Often, this is done on the basis of unreliable information. It is downright disinformation. Mr. Zuckerberg, your boss, has said he has no intention of committing to removing these 12 accounts that generate 73% of the anti-vaccination content.
Can you explain the rationale for this position to me?
Kevin Chan
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Kevin Chan
2021-03-29 11:31
To be honest, sir, I'm not entirely familiar with the specific case you're talking about. I can tell you more generally that our posture is in fact to remove harmful misinformation about COVID vaccines. I myself have spent many hours working with our content policy team to frame up the actual content policy that would govern speech about vaccines. We have already removed significant amounts. One of our latest statistics is that in February we removed 12 million pieces of content related to COVID vaccine misinformation.
The challenge, sir, is one that you'll appreciate. We do this with public health agencies and public health experts around the world, and they'll tell you the same thing. The challenge is that we need to strike a balance between people's ability to speak their minds and share their own feelings and ideas and thinking about things, and preventing harmful misinformation about COVID vaccines from being spread.
View Heather McPherson Profile
NDP (AB)
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for taking this on and doing such a good job today.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for joining us today at committee and agreeing to answer some of our questions. I'm very concerned when I hear the inability of some of the witnesses to answer those questions. I would echo what my colleague Mr. Housefather said, that it seems very important that Mr. Zuckerberg agree to come and share his thoughts with this committee, because unfortunately we are not able to get some of the answers we need.
I have to start by saying that people are increasingly concerned about the power of the web giants, the ravages of the spread of online hate speech, the impact of unfair competition of these giants on our local media, and the total lack of justice when people work hard to pay their fair share and multinational web companies do everything to circumvent the rules. People are right to have these fears, and when they learn about the cozy relationship between these web giants and the Liberal government....
I would like to remind you that we are here because we discovered that Minister Guilbeault's department, in charge of regulating the web giants, agreed to share a job offer to Facebook. This lack of ethics is even more unacceptable when we know that this government continues to protect Facebook's profit at the expense of the survival of our local media; continues to protect the profits of the web giants by refusing to make them pay their fair share at the expense of our workers and small businesses who do pay their fair share; and continues to delay regulating the platforms at the expense of the people and communities who suffer from online hate. The NDP will continue to press the Liberal government to end this favourable treatment of the web giants and protect the interests of Canadians.
I guess I would like to start by asking some questions about some of those ethical issues I've raised.
In your last appearance at committee, Mr. Chan, when asked if you had ever asked political staff in a ministerial cabinet to circulate a job offer for Facebook, you replied that you didn't think so. Could you now answer that same question with a yes or a no? If it's a yes, which ministerial cabinet?
View Heather McPherson Profile
NDP (AB)
You don't think so. Okay.
You asked the department in charge of your regulations to share a job offer for Facebook with details of the salary conditions, and you.... Yes. Okay. I just wanted to make that clear.
Kevin Chan
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Kevin Chan
2021-03-29 11:35
If I may, ma'am.... It's important, because we do care about facts and the truth.
Mr. Chair, I would like to say one thing, if I may.
I would just like to say that, in the opening, I believe, Madam McPherson, with all due respect, the use of the term “job offer” is false. It is a distortion of the truth—
Kevin Chan
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Kevin Chan
2021-03-29 11:35
Ma'am, it was a job poster that was public, that was circulated to everybody far and wide on social media, on various platforms. I will remind you that it is obviously an open job poster. Nobody—
View Heather McPherson Profile
NDP (AB)
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