1. Andrew Lawton peddles in extremism. Erin O’Toole treating this propagandist as an actual journalist, normalizes far right disinformation & pretends it’s legitimate & reasonable. It isn’t. It’s the subversion of objective truth & facts. #elxn44#cdnmedia#StopTheCPC
3. On Canada Day, when many chose to observe a day of mourning, to honour Indigenous lives lost at the hands of systemic racism, Andrew Lawton chose instead to dog whistle to neo-Nazis. #NeverVoteCPC#NeverVoteConservative#Elxn44#cdnmedia#StopTheCPC
4. Now Lawton propagandizes for the equally toxic fake charity #TrueNorthCentre. The one Andrew Scheer told Canadians to listen to.
Please see past thread👇on this #DarkMoney funded disinformation operation:
5. #TrueNorthCentre promotes similar disinformation as “Rebel News”, including amplifying white nationalists & xenophobic messaging. Tommy Robinson, for instance, is a well known neo-fascist, amplified by Rebel & TNC. #cdnmedia#NeverVoteCPC#Elxn44#StopTheCPC
6. Rebel “News”, #TrueNorthCentre#ErinOToole, #ProudBoys, #PPC & a seemingly endless list of far right MAGA type extremists, all use the “free speech” trope as cover to excuse unfettered distribution of lies & disinformation to completely pollute the information space. #Elxn44
6. “It really is my identity. It really is my culture & it’s as legitimate as anyone else’s culture” says CCFR spokesman. TNC puts out the most jaw-dropping NRA type propaganda. One that targets Trudeau with a viciousness that can only stoke violence. #NeverVoteCPC#StopTheCPC
7. Thanks @househounds for this quote from @TorontoStar article from March 21, 2018. The #CPC’s ties to extremism have been routinely ignored or downplayed for many years. The 95% Conservative ownership of mainstream #cdnmedia is a big part of the problem. #Elxn44#NeverVoteCPC
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1. I’m starting a series of threads on #Project2025. It’s more than just a blueprint for destroying democracy & installing fascism. It’s a blueprint for the wholesale ravaging of the environment to benefit billionaires. Specifically, extraction industry billionaires.
The partners in #Project2025, are billionaire-backed right wing extremist front operations disguising themselves as “pro family values”, “freedom”, “choice in education” “traditional values”. When in fact, it’s about autocracy & dismantling public protections. #DemocracyInDanger
3. In this series, we’ll look at some of the partners in #Project2025. The deception & con-jobs designed to hoodwink the public. Let’s take a look at “Native Americans for Sovereignty & Preservation. This group hijacks causes & imitates topics important to Indigenous communities.
Running 74 fake spoiler candidates who don’t live, support, or even campaign, in the communities they target, is so clearly a dirty trick & an abuse of rules & norms, benefiting #Conservatives. The organizers claim to be independent, but the ridings they target tell another story
#ElectoralReform is an exploited talking point aimed mostly at the left to hive off Liberal support - always to benefit #Conservatives. It was debated & quickly got messy. It’s been used as “broken promise” propaganda ever since.
Yes, this 👇
The dirty tricks by the “extreme ballot committee” or the “longest ballot f*ckery committee” or whatever, is, and has been, spun across propaganda media. It perpetuates misinformation and propaganda. #TorontoStPaul #cdnpoli
On #NeverPoilievre’s website, on the first page, is a link to propaganda from a known Kremlin mouth piece & white nationalist, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa. Even RW propaganda site #PostMillennial fired Dzsurdzsa. Once again, PP dog whistles to far right extremists & 🇷🇺. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
Who then hired this far right Kremlin mouth piece? #TrueNorthCentre, a pro Poilievre registered “charity” front operation, spreading disinformation disguised as “news”. #CdnDisinfo #cdnmedia #CdnMediaCrisis #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative
#TrueNorthCentre played a pivotal role in ousting Erin O’Toole, pushing PP, & spreading #FluTruxKlan destabilization op propaganda as well as promoting Kremlin talking points & pro Kremlin political figures like #ChristineAnderson. #cdnpoli #NeverPoilievre
On this New Year’s Day 2024, let’s look back on 2023, a year in review of some of the more notable propaganda campaigns that misled the public, using both legacy/corporate media & social media. 🧵
#NewYear2024 #AYearInReview #cdnmedia #cdnpoli #Goodbye2023 #CdnDisinfo
Let’s start with recent history. The appalling partisanship & lack of critical thinking, in addition to a willingness to comply, with the foreign ops of authoritarians like Modi, laid bare (again) our #CdnMediaCrisis. Then silence when more evidence came to light. #cdnpoli
Of course, one of the biggest ops of 2023 was the Chinese interference story. Picking off off LPC MPs in key ridings, appeared to be an aim, using unassessed unknown confidence intel, leaked by partisans. #cdnmedia played such a starring role, @MarkBourrie called it #CoupByMedia
The political right is an anti-democratic movement. They collude, network, share donors, strategies, dirty tricks, ways to cheat, propaganda/disinformation networks, lies. Stephen Harper’s #IDU co-chair, indicted in Georgia in Trump/#GOP attempts to overthrow democracy. #cdnpoli
#Conservatives & #Republicans have been using, sharing and colluding for years. #IDU #NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli https://t.co/4edSAIeQJFthetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/…
That time Andrew Scheer was super cagey and evasive about indicted Trump co-conspirator, Mike Roman, being part of his team.
PP calling #CBC “Trudeau Liberal propaganda”, had 2 objectives: to discredit CBC when holding Polievre #CPC to account AND to make CBC second guess any positive stories about Trudeau & #LPC. @CBC obliges with stories like this. #cdnpoli#cdnmedia
By the way, the Jamaican trip was a Xmas vacation. So why is this a “top story” that prominently quotes #NevrePoilievre? @CBCRadioCanada@CBCNews, care to explain?
#Cdnmedia: it’s time to decide whether you are on the side of democracy or on the side of dismantling it. #cdnpoli