mr. milner and dr. house didn't, which was in relation to the number of people working in the teams removing content. now, mr. pickles has provided us with a rough figure against a user group of 320 million, i think you said. what i don't understand is, why dr. house and mr. milnerhouse a provide those details to the committee. you didn't just say -- both of you. you didn't just say you can't. you said your companies won't provide those companies publicly. >> mr. milner. >> i'm happy to take that. i will check again with my colleagues. my understanding is -- we've been asked this question before. it's not information that we make public. but i will ask again. >> dr. house. >> we're in a similar situation. >> and you're right to ask on that. >> okay, my two points. one was for twitter and the other was for all of you. i just want to check one thing that was reported in april of last year, mr. pickles. this was in the daily mail which is why i want to check whether or not it's factually correct. is it true

mr. milner, mr. pickles, dr. house said that he'd provide us with further information on the number of people reached and therefore helped, we hope, by the resources that google has deployed. i'd be grateful if you'd do the same with some of the examples you've talked about. >> we can follow-up and write to you. >> before i come to your fellow citizen, on the issue of diversity in your organization, one of the key features of trying to deal with the daesh narrative is to have arabic speakers and those in the community. what kind of numbers do you have, mr. pickles, in terms of in your group of 100, how many would be either arab speakers or those who actually know and understand the community? because obviously you and i may not do so. >> no. to reiterate, it's more than 100. it's not an absolute figure. and there's expertise from across the company. we absolutely have local language specialists looking at this. >> how many would be arabic speakers? >> i don't have the number at hand. i can investigate. across the

mr. milner? >> i reject that you're suggesting that daesh have been a success because of our platform. absolutely that's not the case. we are one of the main -- we've worked very hard to disrupt what they do in partnership with other organizations also committed to disrupting them. and we will continue to strive to do better. of course, we can always do more. we are always trying to learn but i reject the suggestion that we are -- we don't care about the issue. that's far from the truth. >> that wasn't the suggestion. the question was that -- because i'm sure you could do more, but you may have reasons of principle or cost for not doing more. but there is plenty technologically more. in facebook you banned nipples and it causes offense to women with breast cancer or to women who are breastfeeding that you have technology that bans pictures of nipples and yet -- and yet terrorist content from isis sometimes seems to get through the nets. >> with respect, that's not true. "a," we do allow pictures

mr. milner a quick answer. >> we started the proceedings with comments about ms. sandberg and the speech in berlin recently that demonstrates the commitment from the absolute top of our presentation to doing everything we can to make, can to continue to make facebook a hostile place place for extremist and anybody wanted to organize terrorism. it's an absolute commitment to this. we want to do more. want to do more in an informed way based on the evidence of what works. >> and the appointment of burkart former prosecutor to set up your counterterrorism squad numbers of which you won't will add -- tell us some any work paid. >> monica has been part of her company for a few years now and she beats our content policy pitch he doesn't actually work in the community operations team were the experts in terrorism are achieved works very closely with them. as i do and my policy colleagues from across the world, when required so there's an awful lot of cross functional working and monica is a part of it. >> but the announcement he made last thursday. >> an interview with y

mr. milner a quick answer. >> we started the proceedings with comments about ms. sandberg and the speech in berlin recently that demonstrates the commitment from the absolute top of our presentation to doing everything we can to make, can to continue to make facebook a hostile place place for extremist and anybody wanted to organize terrorism. it's an absolute commitment to this. we want to do more. want to do more in an informed way based on the evidence of what works. >> and the appointment of burkart former prosecutor to set up your counterterrorism squad numbers of which you won't will add -- tell us some any work paid. >> monica has been part of her company for a few years now and she beats our content policy pitch he doesn't actually work in the community operations team were the experts in terrorism are achieved works very closely with them. as i do and my policy colleagues from across the world, when required so there's an awful lot of cross functional working and monica is a part of it. >> but the announcement he made last thursday. >> an interview with y

mr. milner a quick answer. >> we started the proceedings with comments about ms. sandberg and the speech in berlin recently that demonstrates the commitment from the absolute top of our presentation to doing everything we can to make, can to continue to make facebook a hostile place place for extremist and anybody wanted to >> of the numbers above which? >> being part of our company for a few yo years because afor working on the committed the operations team. as i do and my colleagues across the world wouldoss require there is cross functional working. >> when she talked about the work we're doing in this space perhaps there are more details similar sharedre previously.ar >> my a final question is between the forgotten my is.her -- the allies to combat those issues objectively. we have to ask to be part of a civil liberties campaign what confidence can people have that you can approach these issues? >> we have people that used to work with the fbi. with these challenges issues.hbu and with the campaign's withes those issues of the day. >> that was very sad about m