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Podcast: The Rodgers Brief
Episode: MCC Day 33 – Attempts to Explain RCMP-Issued Tweets and Facebook Posts During Mass Casualty
Description: One of the main complaints in the immediate aftermath of the April 18-19, 2020 mass casualty events was the use by the RCMP of social media posts to warn the public, rather than issuing an emergency alert to citizens’ cell phones, and then the low degree of accuracy of the content of those posts. Today, after a brief presentation by Commission lawyer Anna Mancini, three witnesses attempted to explain why Twitter was the primary communication platform chosen, and why accurate information was so seemingly difficult to provide to the public. By now, we know that key information such as the fac...