OTTAWA — Newly released documents show federal public safety officials quietly expressed concern over the tech industry’s ability to curb the spread of extremist and terrorist content online after sector-wide layoffs.

The documents, released to the National Post under federal access-to-information legislation, were prepared ahead of a 2023 meeting with Google, which owns YouTube, as well as a meeting with X, formerly known as Twitter.

Officials specifically reported the rise in terrorist and extremist materials found on the platforms in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

“The Israel-Hamas conflict has created an avalanche … with at times hundreds of thousands of graphic videos and images of mass shootings, kidnappings and other violence widely circulating on social media,” r

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