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 at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Sept. 27, 2021.
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
