Millions of lives depend on it.

Substance use disorder is complex but treatable.

I commend the administration for taking an evidence-based public health approach to the drug epidemic.

I want to applaud the bold approach in that to reducing overdose deaths and the urgency in which you intend to act.

Today our laws give these companies and their leaders a blank check to do nothing.

it is now painfully clear that neither the market nor public pressure will force these social media companies to take the aggressive action they need to take to eliminate disinformation and extremism from their platforms.

You are not passive bystanders. You are not nonprofits or religious organizations that are trying to do a good job for humanity. You are making money.

The bottom line is, simply put, your company's bottom line compels you to amplify extremist and dangerous content.

Thank you, Chairman Doyle and Schakowsky, for this very important hearing.

The dirty truth is that they are relying on algorithms to purposefully promote conspiratorial, divisive, or extremist content so they can take more money in ad dollars.

The troubling research I mentioned demonstrates that Facebook was not simply allowing disinformation and extremism to spread, it actively amplified it and spread it.

When you spread disinformation, misinformation, extremism, actively promoted and amplified, you do it because you make more money.