The Los Angeles city attorney’s office is conducting an internal review of city employees’ use of Google Chat messages that are automatically deleted after 24 hours.

By the time he deleted the post, it had been viewed more than a million times.

Confusion and frustration followed in the replies, which included the allegation that Hay and Mayo had deleted parts of a community Discord channel where investors gathered.

In an environment where the "government steps in to pick up the slack," Cohn says, young people feel "free to delete family from their lives."

Sturgeon and Swinney were accused of "industrial scale" deletion of messages by opposition parties but said any "salient" points were recorded on the corporate record and only informal messages were deleted.