🧵 "Nearly a year after the start of Canada’s 2022 #FreedomConvoy—a series of protests and blockades that brought together a wide variety of #farrightactivists and #extremists, as well as ordinary Canadians who found common ground with the aggrieved message of the organizers ...
the question of whether and to what degree foreign actors were involved remains largely unanswered. This paper attempts to answer some of those questions by providing a brief but targeted analysis of #Russia’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy via #media and #social media.
The analysis examines Russian involvement in the convoy through the lenses of overt state media coverage, state-affiliated #proxywebsites, and overlap between #Russianpropaganda and #convoycontent on social media.
The findings reveal that the #Russianstate media outlet #RT covered the Freedom Convoy far more than any other international media outlet ...
Read the report here journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/jicw…
Read the report here journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/jicw…
The underlying causes of the movement that became the Freedom Convoy have long existed in Canada, but the circumstances of the pandemic proved to be fertile ground for the growth of a new protest movement that cultivated and exploited backlash to pandemic restrictions & mandates
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