Thread by @HeatherMoAndCo

So yesterday I was fed a story in my news app that enraged me. #Cdnmedia is in a crisis. The rank inability to employ logical reasoning, the pushing of a narrative for political ends, is not reporting. It is propaganda & it misinforms the public, not the opposite. #cdnpoli

It was more shockingly poor reporting on Chinese interference, implying a connection where no factual evidence is provided. Merely a faulty attempt to draw conclusions without substantiating anything. Just garbage reporting. #CdnmediFailed #cdnpoli

The article even admits it has no evidence, merely wild speculation implying that the drop in #Conservative votes is due to a vague implication of Chinese interference. Chiu lost & because he lives in a RW bubble, imagines that it must be “interference”…#CdnMediaFailed #cdnpoli

…instead of #CPC’s horrible pandemic record & Chiu not being as good a candidate as former police officer, Chiang.
This #cdnmedia smear campaign of Chinese Canadian #LPC members is a political hit job. Full stop. It manufactures specious threads in order to forge a narrative.

If I were Paul Chiang or the other candidates smeared by #Conservative political “reporters”, I’d file a defamation suit. This is a coordinated hit job looking to discredit & pick off #LPC candidates in key ridings. It is beyond an outrageous #CdnMediaFail. #NeverVoteConservative

Some past threads on this subject. #CdnmediaCrisis #GarbageReporting #CoupByMedia #cdnpoli

This is an attempted coup by #cdnmedia. It is yet another grotesque assault and manufacturing of a narrative in order to install a manifestly unfit #CPC opposition into power. #cdnpoli

Hey @nationalpost, was the drop in voter turnout in Ontario due to Chinese interference? You know, the record low turnout that gave Doug Ford a majority? Funny how you only look at selected data & draw implied conclusions you have no evidence for. #cdnmedia #CdnMediaCoup #cdnpoli

Btw the garbage reporting on this story is practically across the board in #cdnmedia. Take this lack of critical thinking from @CBCNews. More reports based on reports of allegations. Again #Conservative Dick Fadden is quoted, revealing something noteworthy.

What is noteworthy in Fadden’s remarks, is exactly how whisper campaigns are spread. Allegations are made in #cdnmedia based on confidential intelligence that may not have even been assessed or investigated, strategically leaked to partisan journalists. More reports are then spun

…based on unsubstantiated allegations. Presented with no facts, no evidence if or how the intel was assessed.

Fadden surely knows what he’s doing here & if he doesn’t, then he had no business ever heading up CSIS, whether he was a partisan pick or not. #CdnNatSec @csiscanada