The trio of parliamentarians who’ve led the government’s investigation into the role of Facebook and other digital giants in modern democracies will take questions directly from Canadians, after their latest report on the topic is tabled on Tuesday.

Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, Conservative MP Bob Zimmer and NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus each sit on the House committee on access to information, privacy and ethics, which will publish on Tuesday morning the second report from its study of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach.

After a news conference, they’ll host an ask-me-anything (AMA) for Canadians on reddit’s page for Canada next Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. EST.

Next Tuesday starting at 4:45 pm, I’ll be participating in a @reddit AMA with @bobzimmermp & @CharlieAngusNDP on r/canada. Ask me (u/beynate) anything. #cdnpoli — Nate Erskine-Smith (@beynate) December 7, 2018

The three were also Canada’s delegates to a committee of parliamentarians from nine countries that met in the United Kingdom last week to discuss online disinformation, and to host a public grilling of Facebook over the role it’s played in enabling the spread of fake news and other disinformation.

The “International Grand Committee,” as it was called, sent three invitations to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in the hope he would attend, but the tech billionaire turned them down. Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice-president of policy solutions, sat in his place through several hours of questioning.

“On the one hand, I thought it was unfortunate that Facebook didn’t take it seriously enough to send someone more senior, but it was also enlightening in … different ways, and I think the key takeaway was Facebook now fully acknowledges that additional regulation is necessary, and that they are welcoming it,” Erskine-Smith said of the overseas meetings.

Parliamentarians from seven countries, including Zimmer representing Canada, signed the international committee’s formal result, the “International Principles for the Law Governing the Internet.”

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The Canadian committee’s Facebook-Cambridge Analytica study has focused mainly on protecting Canadians’ personal data, how the country’s upcoming election can be protected from foreign actors, and how to limit the spread of disinformation online.

Erskine-Smith said he and other committee members will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday after the report is tabled, and will host Ontario Proud’s Ryan O’Connor at its meeting just before then. Ontario Proud’s possible role in the upcoming election has been another source of concern for the ethics committee. The Liberals, in particular, worry the right-wing Facebook account could use its massive online following to exploit political advertising regulations and tilt the electoral scale in favour of the Conservatives.

The right-wing social media page, which took partial credit for the election of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, has more followers on Facebook than the official pages of the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, or former prime minister Stephen Harper, making it one of the most followed political pages in Canada.

To ask Erskine-Smith, Zimmer or Angus questions next week, all that’s needed is a reddit account. Signing up for reddit only requires an email account.

Given it’s an AMA, Erskine-Smith said they’ll answer questions about anything, but prefer to field questions on privacy, data collection, and how to regulate social media platforms.

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