As Interwebs popularity grew, the company decided to go public through an Initial Public Offering (I.P.O.) in which they sold shares of their company to the public for the first time. Now worth hundreds of millions of dollars and answering to thousands of shareholders, the directors called a meeting to discuss the company stance on non-regulation of content. Recently, the company had experienced some bad press (causing share prices to drop) because of misinformation sweeping the site. Specifically, a few deep fake videos were attributed to altering the outcome of an election, a number of fake scientific reports claiming that a certain diet could prevent tuberculosis caused an outbreak and lead to the deaths of dozens of people, and one hate group gained a large following who claimed responsibility for several fatal shootings.