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NDP MP wants Libs to take Facebook to task over whistleblower claims

Briefs | 10/18/2021 6:30 pm EDT
NDP MP Charlie Angus on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, April 17, 2018./ Hill Times photo by Andrew Meade.

NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to “rethink their badly-flawed handling of the big tech file,” after whistleblower Frances Haugen released documents to The Wall Street Journal, which published an investigation into Facebook Inc. in September. 

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