Multiple federal departments and agencies have interacted with social media companies to request online content be taken down, often times to have impersonating accounts removed but also to purge posts they deemed offensive.
The Canadian government provided the information on March 27 in an Inquiry of Ministry following an order paper submitted by Conservative MP Dean Allison.
Allison asked for an account from each governmental organization on efforts to “take down, edit, ban, or change in any other way social media content, posts, or accounts, since January 1, 2020.”
The most serious case involves employees of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) sharing private taxpayer information in a Facebook Messenger chat group. CRA requested the information be taken down but says it didn’t receive confirmation it had been….