Newly released documents show that a federal government department asked Facebook and Twitter to delete a newspaper article that it felt contained errors — but both social-media giants denied the request.
The request to remove social-media posts that linked to an unspecified Toronto Sun article came from a director of communications on Sept. 27, 2021, according to information prepared by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Documents say that staff at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, which reports to Parliament through the immigration minister but is otherwise an independent body, believed the article contained “serious errors of fact risking (and) undermining public confidence in the independence of the board as well as the integrity of the refugee determination system.” The board did not respond to questions from The Canadian Press.
The social-media companies ultimately said that they were denying the request because the article wasn’t their original content.
Kind of explains the push for C-11. Soon they won’t be able to say no
As if they would want to.
Had this been eastern Europe, there would be rioting in the streets.
I wonder what the response would have been if it was a Rebel News or True North article the government wanted memory holed?
They don’t admire his, especially since the moron started feeding them fake stories. Also from 2021:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226880.shtml
How about they respond with the truth instead of censorship?
“serious errors of fact risking (and) undermining public confidence in the independence of the board as well as the integrity of the refugee determination system.”
Be assured, Blackie, there’s zero risk of that. Everybody already knows everything they need to about government integrity.
“the article is full of errors, and you must remove it”
“what are the errors?”
“that’s a secret so we can’t tell you! just remove it!”
They made a critical error…they should have gone through the FBI. Then it would have been acted on quickly.