The National Post reports in its Thursday edition that 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 on-line after sector-wide layoffs. The Post's Stephanie Taylor writes that the documents, released 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. The internal briefing documents detail how officials believed one of the reasons platforms and their companies were struggling to remove terrorist and extremist content was because thousands of staff responsible for content moderation had been laid off. In early 2023, Google's parent company, Alphabet, announced that it was laying off 12,000 staff, with cuts continuing across other major tech companies in the years since. Around that time, reports suggested roughly one-third of the staff working at Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Google, tasked with developing tools for content moderation and helping identify terrorist content that could be removed, but which was separate from YouTube's trust and safety division, were cut.