The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has announced that the government will not adopt a controversial Liberal Party resolution to target disinformation that critics denounce as potentially dangerous to freedom of the press in Canada. The resolution, which was passed by members of the Liberal Party without any debate, requested that the government "explore options to hold online information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms, and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced." However, the Prime Minister has stated that the policy is not a policy that the government would ever implement. Facebook parent company Meta was criticised by the Conservative heritage critic Rachael Thomas for a company representative's testimony at a parliamentary committee on Monday that said the company would remove news from Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18, which tech giants have fought against, passes.

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