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Britain’s official coronavirus inquiry sparked intense debate about how politicians use Meta-owned WhatsApp. It revealed a string of embarrassing and sometimes foul-mouthed messages and raised questions on official record-keeping.
Senior figures together with the previous First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confronted a backlash after admitting to deleting a lot of their messages despatched on the app through the pandemic.
Those who did not delete their messages confronted seeing their non-public musings revealed to the general public. Humza Yousaf — who briefly served as first minister — confronted explicit s scrutiny for a few of his pandemic texts.
In one alternate with a senior Scottish well being official, Yousaf — then well being secretary — described the previous Labour lawmaker Neil Findlay as an “a*sehole” and a “tw*t.” In one other message, he known as a high Scottish lawyer a “Tory f*ckwit.”
Announcing the ban within the Scottish parliament Tuesday, Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes stated using WhatsApp through the pandemic was “comprehensible in such urgent occasions.”
