The federal government should appoint a regulator with the power to force social media companies to disclose information to help fight far-right extremism, an anti-hate group told MPs Tuesday.
Balgord was one of three experts who testified before the committee on Tuesday. All three described the rise of far-right extremism in Canada, enabled by social media.
"They're not all racist, they're not all violent," said Balgord. "Not all people on January 6 were either. There were groups in those midsts that decided that they were going to try to do a coup and they swept up a lot of the other people there. Perry said the convoy protest demonstrated a capacity to organize on a large scale through encrypted and unencrypted social media platforms.
Perry called for better law enforcement intelligence, saying police failed to properly evaluate the nature of the convoy protest. She also pointed out that some officers donated to the convoy or shared online conspiracy theories and misinformation. Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona.
Representatives of Facebook's owner Meta, meanwhile, told the committee that it monitored groups and accounts related to the truck convoy 24/7 once the convoy began and did not see hate speech or violent content in association with the protest.
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