Criticising Facebook for its response to the Christchurch terrorist attack, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner John Edwards called the company “morally bankrupt pathological liars” in a now-deleted tweet on Sunday.
The original tweet read: “They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions.”
The commissioner later posted this:
“I have deleted the tweets promoting my discussion about Mark Zuckerberg’s interview because of the volume of toxic and misinformed traffic they prompted. Here is the actual conversation with @SusieFergusonNZ on @NZMorningReport
The people of New Zealand have had a Privacy Commissioner since 1991, when the role was introduced by the now defunct Privacy Commissioner Act 1991. The commissioner is entrusted with protecting the privacy of New Zealand’s citizens.
John Edwards had sent an email—which he later published—to Facebook executives on March 25. In it, he said, “Your silence is an insult to our grief”. The company later responded to a query by the commissioner, clarifying that they had not changed their livestreaming policy following the Christchurch attack.