NEVER forget this. #DougFord has been the client of one of the most manipulative dark actors to ever operate on the Canadian political landscape: Navigator. They have coached him, planted stories in the press, shaped social media responses through inauthentic activity. #ONpoli
Remember this piece of lockstep propaganda in #cdnmedia?
Take note of who falls for #DougFord’s ridiculous crocodile tears today. The Trudeau gov’t transferred billions to Ford for #COVID19Ontario relief measures. Ford hoarded the💰instead of implementing #PaidSickDays. #ONpoli
Now that there are petitions demanding #DougFordResign, suddenly this incompetent conman can produce the #PaidSickDays that he was given federal funding to help pay for, OVER A YEAR AGO? Anyone who falls for #DougFord’s soap opera acting, is a fool, a liar or an enabler. #onpoli
Or how about this? Remember when #Conservatives all followed a script to demand rapid testing, claiming it would open up the economy? Only later revealed that MILLIONS of tests HAD been shipped by the feds & were collecting dust, unused by provinces like Ontario? #cdnpoli#ONpoli
A bit more about Navigator. They employ multi-pronged techniques to launch propaganda, disinformation & public manipulation. Including AI, “True” - their in-house web & content generator (including YouTube videos & social media memes) & “crisis response dashboard” Kio. #cdnpoli
But Navigator is certainly not alone. They act in concert with majority #Conservative owned #cdnmedia, esp #Postmedia where they have multiple ties, as well as 3rd party front groups funded by #DarkMoney. Such as the groups run by #JeffBallingall, formerly of Navigator. #cdnpoli
I’ll add this at the end here. Additional info re Navigator CEO, Jaime Watt. H/t @Theobius.
As I was saying. My God, the shamelessness of it. The gaslighting garbage shamelessness. I won’t share the link. Don’t give them the clicks. But this is grotesque. #DougFord’s grifting, incompetence & negligence has literally killed people. #PostMedia is trash. #cdnmedia#ONpoli
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3. Enter other issues, like cronyism between #Conservatives & pharma companies.
In 2011 Harper gave a 10 yr $425.9M contract to GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline). It required GSK to supply at least 15 million doses a month in a pandemic once its vaccine is ready #cdnpoli#COVID19CA
I’m going to add to this @TurnbullWhitby tweet. #BlockedByRempel is beyond hypocritical. She exemplifies toxic politicking. #MichelleRempel pleaded with officials in Oklahoma to implement lockdowns to ‘keep her family safe’. Now she performatively demands removing lockdowns in 🇨🇦
#BlockedByRempel is so profoundly narcissistic that she can’t even recognize the hypocrisy within her own Twitter thread. She said “we’re all in this together” after slamming “coastal regions” & pretending that Calgary is some flyover backwater ignored by “elites” 🙄. #cdnpoli
Something else that must be noted about #MichelleRempel’s ridiculous comment pretending Calgary Nose Hill is “overlooked by elites”. Know what the median household income is in #CalgaryNoseHill? $101,329/year. MEDIAN. #ABpoli#cdnpoli
Let’s begin with AIER, The American Institute For Economic Research. #AIER is a libertarian “think tank”, largely funded by the Koch Network. AIER is behind such large scale propaganda offensives as “The Great Barrington Declaration”. A thoroughly debunked piece of disinformation
AIER disinformation has been so successful & pervasive that even formerly respected authors peddle their nonsense.
Incidentally, Naomi Wolfe happens to be a “Visiting Senior Fellow” at #AIER. #cdnpoli#COVID19#COVIDdisinformation
🧵 Far-right, anti-choice #Conservatives in public office.
This is Michael Barrett, #CPC shadow minister for “ethics”. Barrett routinely sends profoundly dishonest mail-outs to his constituents, which only occasionally get challenged by the targets of his disinformation #cdnpoli
Barrett is cut from the same broad cloth as #PierrePoilievre, Derek Sloan & other #Conservative members across 🇨🇦. All of them helped into power by far right anti-choice organizations like Campaign Life Coalition & “RightNow”. #cdnpoli#CPC
Both CLC & RightNow are far right disinformation dispensing anti-choice groups whose members oppose abortion even in the case of rape & incest. Their extremist positions even target #Conservatives with less extreme views. #cdnpoli
1. #cdnmedia has a critically dangerous problem with RW propaganda & disinformation posing as “news”. Take “True North Centre” aka tnc. It’s a registered charity brought to you by #PostMedia propagandists. These BS charities are ideal conduits for #DarkMoney, disguising sources.
2. @CanRevAgency is likely overwhelmed by the pandemic & may not have the manpower to audit all of these BS charities. So 🇨🇦 needs a dedicated department within #CRA to investigate what amounts to #DarkMoney influence operations exploiting charitable status. #cdnpoli#cdnmedia
3. The Right can’t win on truth or policy. #CPC has nothing but tired failed ideology, in slavish service to private interests of billionaires. So their strategy appears to be: saturate & pollute #cdnmedia & social media landscapes with so much disinformation, truth is drowned.
Smug stupidity & entitlement drips from every whining self-serving Keean Bexte propaganda tweet. He broke travel restrictions to take part in a fascist coup attempt, AFTER warnings about quarantine. Calls a decent hotel a “gulag”, claims not getting fed in 4 hrs is “starvation”.
This thread on Bexte from 2019 is worth a read. Bexte has a history of ties to white nationalist groups & others on the far right.
A previous @ricochet_en article on one of the white nationalist endeavours Keean Bexte was involved with, “Fireforce Ventures” an online store selling far right white supremacist militariana: ricochet.media/en/2394/meet-t…