Freeland Faces Election Probe

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland faces investigation by the Commissioner of Elections over a social media post tagged by Twitter as fake news. The Canada Elections Act prohibits any person from knowingly making a false statement to influence voters. Freeland posted a deceptively edited interview clip of Conservative leader Erin O’Toole that Twitter called a case of video manipulation: “This is completely wrong.”

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