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  • 2016-11-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Canada's Immigration Web Site Crashed After 2016 U.S. Election? (en)
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  • As the 8 November 2016 U.S. general election wound down, social media users claimed that Canada's immigration web site had crashed because of the results: On 9 March 2016, we reported on a nearly identical claim that Canada's immigration site had crashed after a string of Trump's primary wins. The March 2016 site errors lasted much longer than the initial search spike: The site was inaccessible for some visitors, but connectivity problems were not necessarily associated with disgruntled voters: Canada's Citizenship and Immigration web site was inaccessible for parts of 8 and 9 November 2016. Similar rumors circulated during primary elections in March 2016, and problems with the Canadian government's technical infrastructure were previously documented. On 10 November 2016, the Canadian government confirmed that a flood of visitors from the United States was indeed what had crashed its site: (en)
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