Yes, we heard testimony from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. In their report, “Malgorithm”, they found evidence that Meta's Instagram recommendation algorithm is “actively pushing radicalising, extremist misinformation to users”, including anti-Semitic and far-right, white supremacist tropes.
Thank you for that.
As you're probably aware, Canada heavily subsidized Meta and Google to the extent of over $1 billion a year in indirect subsidies. These are writeoffs that businesses can undertake by advertising on the Meta platform.
Does it make any sense at all for us to be massively subsidizing Meta, when they are refusing to heed democratic decisions in Canada and when they are promoting such hate in the pipeline of hate, as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Centre have so clearly spelled out?