Speeches by Hinds.

“That is to sign up. That was not the question. The question was: if you are in the programme, what are the triggers for being paid out on video watches?”

“What counts as a watch? I realise that these are leading questions, but you could scroll past a video, you could dwell on it for two seconds, you could watch it for five seconds, you could unmute it, you could watch it for 20 seconds, and those do not all have the same effect on how much money you get, do they?”

“Sign of the times.”

“Ian, you have referred a number of times to the changing viewing habits of children, without being explicit about what those changing habits are. In the last session we had YouTube, and today we are going to have TikTok and Instagram. “FYI” was an award-winning 15-minute television slot that used to play multiple times…”

“Indeed. I am going to ask Rebecca a similar question in a moment, but in the wake of red versus blue, have you done an analysis to see if anybody made money out of it—from the creator fund, for example?”

“Really quickly, can you talk us through the criteria or the triggers for getting payouts from the creator fund for a video? Things like unmutes, duration time and so on—what is the summary, very quickly?”

“You are saying that you do not have charity scams, for example, on your platform.”

“You are saying that you do not have charity scams, for example, on your platform.”

“That is to sign up. That was not the question. The question was: if you are in the programme, what are the triggers for being paid out on video watches?”

“What do you think about that? Come on, tell us what you think. Is this a good thing, that news now comes in a 90-second package? By the way, you said a moment ago that you don’t think you have content on TikTok and Instagram. Are you sure? Because that 90-second news snack sounds a lot like it is made for TikTok and In…”

“But you have a product that presents a curated set of content, with some variety and balance. Do you think there is a benefit to that compared with a totally self-selected world?”

“You were asked why it so often seems to be you in the frame. Right at the start of this session, you were at pains to stress that you have a different algorithm, which is not the classic Facebook, as was, social graph. You can be somebody who is instantly all over the internet in a way that you cannot even on other soc…”

“But you are not immune to charity scams, for example, where people are presumably making money through the creator fund. “Unmute this video, play it for 30 seconds”—these are all ways to make money out of your platform.”

“Really quickly, can you talk us through the criteria or the triggers for getting payouts from the creator fund for a video? Things like unmutes, duration time and so on—what is the summary, very quickly?”

“But you are not immune to charity scams, for example, where people are presumably making money through the creator fund. “Unmute this video, play it for 30 seconds”—these are all ways to make money out of your platform.”

“What counts as a watch? I realise that these are leading questions, but you could scroll past a video, you could dwell on it for two seconds, you could watch it for five seconds, you could unmute it, you could watch it for 20 seconds, and those do not all have the same effect on how much money you get, do they?”

“Rebecca, how do you—or do you—analyse after there has been one of these crazes or viral challenges? Do you analyse if money has been made and by whom?”

“Mr Efford, that really was my next sentence, because there are questions about short-term lets, and about second homes in Cornwall and so on. On the short lets issue—whether rents are being pushed up is sometimes another concern with short lets—this levy is not going to solve that problem. The Government will need to d…”

“I do agree. My right hon. Friend and I have been in multiple debates in the main Chamber talking about exactly those issues, both for tourism and for the wider hospitality sector. There are some arguments in favour of an overnight visitor levy, some of which have come up already. The main one is summed up in the senten…”

“I certainly do. On the issue of incrementality—I suspect other colleagues will make this point during the debate—there is only one way to guarantee that the money will truly be ringfenced and used for incremental activity, sales and marketing spend, which is to write it into primary legislation. In these debates, peopl…”