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You know, my own grandfather died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

We do a disservice to our most vulnerable communities when we don't provide these new sets of opportunities for them.

If we are not willing to do what's right, then we are responsible for our children's lives and our children's children's lives.

Ms. Gunasekara, you're here advocating--I mentioned--I heard you mention the CO2 Coalition a few times.

We do not have to choose between the environment and jobs.

So you may flag that it is wrong, but you won't take it down?

So you won't take down lies, or you will take down lies? That one is just a pretty simple yes or no?

You announced recently that the official policy of Facebook now allows politicians to pay to spread disinformation in 2020 elections and in the future.

I think you, of all people, can appreciate using a person's past behavior in order to determine, predict, or make decisions about future behavior.

So you would say that white supremacist-tied publications meet a rigorous standard for fact-checking?

I am not talking about spin. I am talking about actual disinformation.

Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?

This was the largest data scandal with respect to your company that had catastrophic impacts on the 2016 election, and you don't know?

Can you explain why you have named the Daily Caller, a publication well-documented with ties to white supremacists, as an official fact-checker for Facebook?

Let me express my frustration again that Congress was not a part of that discussion.

I think that the Congress, frankly, has been negligent in its time for several years under administrations, both Democratic and Republican.

I am just sick over it and I think that is why we got this strong bipartisan resolution in the Congress condemning it.