Thread by @TheBreakdownAB

1 - The @Alberta_UCP & @jkenney campaigned in part on ending taxpayer funding advertising by governments holding power as well as creating a war room to advocate for Alberta’s Oil & Gas.

But the @CDNEnergyCentre hasn’t turned out quite as advertised.

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2 - When we started looking into the War Room after they were caught boosting articles denying established climate science, we weren’t expecting to find them boosting arguably racist cartoons, but that was just the tip of the iceberg...

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3 - It seems that @jkenney’s @CDNEnergyCentre has not only been paying for advertising for Conservative PAC’s who already have VERY deep pockets of their own, they were actually data mining people who thought they were just supporting Oil & Gas.

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4 - And in a turn that really surprised us, for an agency that is tasked with combatting and alleged international conspiracy against Alberta Oil & Gas, they’re paying for advertising in places that you might not suspect at all.

Or maybe you would.

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5 - Here’s the Breakdown.

We’re not journalists.

We’re just worried about the future of our province, & we believe Albertans deserve much better than this.

So we’ve filed a complaint with the Auditor General, the Ethics Commisioner and the Privacy Commisioner.

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6 - We also believe in transparency, so we’ve made all of our research available to anyone who wants to review it at the link below.

We’ll let you know what we hear back from the offices we have lodged our complaint with.

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drive.google.com/file/d/18Ncfur…

7 - For the full video if you want to share it, you can visit this link.



And as a friendly reminder, the directors of the War Room are @sonyasavage, @doug_schweitzer and @JasonNixonAB.

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8 - And always, if you want to support us, please consider signing up as a monthly supporter at patreon.com/thebreakdownab

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