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Quebec health ministry red-faced after tweeting Pornhub link

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Agence France-Presse

<p>MONTREAL, Canada - Quebec&#x27;s health ministry accidentally tweeted a link Thursday that was supposed to send users to the Canadian province&#x27;s Covid-19 portal but instead went to a page on adult video site Pornhub featuring foot fetishes.</p><p>The ministry quickly deleted the post after the mix-up was discovered.</p><p>&quot;Due to a situation beyond our control, a link with inappropriate content was posted on our Twitter account,&quot; it said in an email to AFP, adding that it was investigating.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="fr">En raison d’une situation hors de notre contrôle, un lien avec du contenu inapproprié a été publié sur notre compte Twitter. Nous en cherchons les causes. Nous sommes désolés des inconvénients.</p>— Santé Québec (@sante_qc) <a href="https://twitter.com/sante_qc/status/1514638938056626183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2022</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>The health ministry has more than 100,000 Twitter followers.</p><p>The incident, which did not go unnoticed by Internet users, provoked a range of reactions from amusement and annoyance to mockery.</p><p>Pornhub, one of the world&#x27;s most-trafficked websites, is based in Montreal and owned by MindGeek.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/12/21/21/ph-tops-list-of-most-time-spent-on-pornhub">PH tops list of most time spent on Pornhub</a></li></ul><div><strong>ast/amc/to</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

Quebec's health ministry accidentally tweeted a link Thursday that sent users to a page on adult video site Pornhub.