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miss cindy otis, vice president at the althea group ask finally miss melody smith, head of analysis at graphica. welcome again to all of you. our thanks to your participation and your work and dr. donovan, let me begin by recognizing you for five minutes. >> thank you for having me and it's a pleasure to be here in my house testifying for you all and thank you, chairman schiff for organizing this hearing. i think it is a very important topic. this summer junk news operations and disinformation campaigns and propaganda spun up by foreign and domestic operatives targeted people seeking information. information about the election, the pandemic and the protests. as the research director at harvard kennedy school shorenstein center, i lead a team that is analyzing media manipulation and disinformation campaigns for their effects on society. today i'll speak about the sector shouldering the true cost of misinformation at scale. in january 2020 facebook published a very important statement and i quote, in the absence of regulation, facebook and other companies are left to design their own app