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Citing Elon Musk, city councillor wants Ottawa to suspend its X accounts (www.cbc.ca)
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A city councillor is pushing the City of Ottawa to suspend all of its accounts on the social media platform X, which she calls "very negative," rife with misinformation and tied to the threat of punishing tariffs against Canada.

Orléans West-Innes Coun. Laura Dudas has given notice of a motion she will make to council's finance and corporate services committee next week. It asks city staff to draw up a plan to suspend the accounts and migrate to other platforms.

In her motion, she said X and owner Elon Musk no longer uphold the values of "transparency, impartiality, respect and accountability," which Dudas views as core principles for the city.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah my city is the same.

They do have a comprehensive website but it's extraordinarily difficult to navigate. So bad in fact that they created another website like instead of mycity.com you have to go to mycityevents.com. It's still terrible in that the information thereon is very vague and always text based. No maps or really useful information.

It seems that the best source of information for events is indeed to follow them on facebook and scrutinise whatever they post in the lead up to community events, and the useful information about parking et cetera is often in the comments. Obviously I'm not going to engage with that.

I'm not adverse to them using social in some way but you should not be required to use social in order to find information.