Federal government staff made a series of social media errors that had to be later deleted, including spelling the Queen of England’s name wrong after her death, according to records from an Inquiry of Ministry.
On Dec. 1, 2022, Ontario Conservative MP Michael Barrett filed a request to cabinet for an itemized list of all deleted tweets since 2019.
According to Blacklocks’ Reporter, Barrett specifically asked: “With regard to tweets made by the government that were later deleted, what are the details of each instance?”
There were multiple tweets deleted. For example, the Privy Council Office was forced to delete a tweet about the Queen after her death on Sept. 8, 2022. Staffers misspelled her name as “Elisabeth.”…