 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much. Today, Trump is Republican allies in Congress and his propaganda parents on Fox News peddling a myth. And today, my Republican colleagues on the Senate Commerce Committee are simply doing the president's bidding. Let's be clear. This can and should join us in addressing the real problems posed by Big Tech. But instead, my Republican colleagues are determined to feed a false narrative about anti-conservative bias meant to intimidate Big Tech so it will stand idly by and allow interference in our election again. Here's the truth. Conservatives and hate speech online are real problems. Anti-conservative bias is a problem. Our far attempts to influence our election with this information are real problems. Anti-conservative bias is not a problem. The Big Tech business model, which puts profits ahead of people, is a real problem. Anti-conservative bias is not a problem. The issue is not that the companies before us today are taking too many posts down. The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up. In fact, they're amplifying harmful content so that it spreads like wildfire and torches our democracy. Mr. Zuckerberg, when President Trump posted on Facebook that when the looting starts, the shooting starts, you fail to take down that post. Within a day, the post had hundreds of thousands of shares and likes on Facebook. Since then, the president has gone on national television and told a hate group to, quote, stand by, and he has repeatedly refused to commit that he will accept the election results. Mr. Zuckerberg, can you commit that if the president goes on Facebook and encourages violence after election results are announced, that you will make sure your company's algorithms don't spread that content and you will immediately remove those messages? Senator, yes, incitement of violence is against our policy and there are no exceptions to that, including for politicians. There are exceptions, did you say? There are no exceptions. There are no exceptions, which is very important because obviously there could be messages that are sent that could throw our democracy into chaos and a lot of it can be and will be created if social media sites do not police what the president says. Mr. Zuckerberg, if President Trump shares Russian or Iranian disinformation lying about the outcome of the election, can you commit that you will make sure your algorithms do not amplify that content and that you will immediately take that content down? Senator, we have a policy in place that prevents any candidate or campaign from prematurely declaring victory or trying to delegitimize the result of the election. What we will do in that case is we will append some factual information to any post that is trying to do that. If someone says that they won the election when the result isn't in, for example, we will append a piece of information to that thing that official election results are not in yet. That way, anyone who sees that post will see that context in line. Also, if one of the candidates tries to prematurely declare victory or cite an incorrect result, we have a precaution that we have built in to put the top of the Facebook app for everyone who signs in in the U.S. information about the accurate U.S. election voting results. I think that this is a very important issue to make sure that people can get accurate information about the results of the election. It cannot be stated as being anything less than critically important. Democracy could be seriously challenged beginning next Tuesday evening and for several days afterwards, maybe longer, and a lot of responsibility is going to be on the shoulders of Facebook and our other witnesses today. Mr. Zuckerberg, if President Trump uses his Facebook account to call for armed private citizens to patrol the polls on election day, which would constitute illegal voter intimidation and violation of the Voting Rights Act, will you commit that your algorithms will not spread that content and that you will immediately take that content down? Senator, my understanding is that content like what you're saying would violate our voter suppression policies and would come down. Okay. Again, the stakes are going to be very high and we're going to take that as a commitment that you will do that because obviously we would otherwise have a serious question mark placed over our elections. We know Facebook cares about one thing, keeping users glued to its platform. One of the ways you do that is with Facebook groups. Mr. Zuckerberg, in 2017, you announced the goal of one billion users joining Facebook groups. Unfortunately, these forum pages have become breeding grounds for hate, echo chambers of misinformation and venues for coordination of violence. Again, Facebook is not only failing to take these pages down, it is actively spreading these pages and helping these groups to recruitment efforts. Facebook's own internal research found that 64% of all extremist group joins are due to Facebook's recommendation tools. Mr. Zuckerberg, will you commit to stopping all group recommendations on your platform until U.S. election results are certified? Yes or no? Senator, we have taken the step of stopping recommendations in groups for all political content or social issue groups as a precaution for this. To clarify one thing, the vast majority of groups and communities that people are part of are not extremist organizations or even political. They're interest-based and communities that I think are quite helpful and healthy for people to be a part of. I do think we need to make sure that our recommendation algorithm doesn't encourage people to join extremist groups. That's something that we have already taken a number of steps on and I agree with you it's very important that we continue to make progress on. Well, your algorithm of promoting online spaces that foster political violence at the very least you should disable those algorithms that are recruiting users during this most sensitive period of our democracy. Thank you.