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For YouTube, what was the most shocking aspect of the story that you discovered while you were preparing for the role? I think it was the data, the statistics. I mean, I understood the effects. I understood there was radicalization and a lot of divisiveness that was being created by platforms like Facebook, misinformation. I didn't understand the business of Facebook as well as I came to understand it in the process of preparing and filming the movie. I didn't understand, you know, engagement being king, the way that advertising works, the way that you keep people, the way that you keep people addicted, the way that you keep people dependent. All that stuff was news to me. And there's the moment where, you know, Jeremy playing Mark Zuckerberg isn't even willing to give up 1% of that engagement, even though it means that we wouldn't have this fallout with radicalization, misinformation, mental health issues. They still want to hold on to that 1%. And that was a big shock to me. Yeah.