Ottawa hired U.K. contractor to monitor pro-Israel social media posts

The Canadian government paid $128,000 to a U.K. firm to monitor Canadian pro-Israel social media accounts, which framed many of them as “right-wing extremists” motivated by “anti-Muslim hatred.”

Among the activities highlighted as being evidence of rising right-wing extremism in Canada was “discontentment with pro-Palestine protests” and even the accusation that some federal politicians were “more dedicated to matters in Gaza than Canadian affairs.”


In April Global News, a bought Liberal Party of Canada propaganda outfit attempted to pass off ISD – Institute for Strategic Dialogue as a legitimate organization:

Global News cites Soros funded WEF adjacent pro-censorship extremists as authoritative source: Domestic extremists pushing ‘corrosive’ narratives in Canada’s election

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Three quarters of Canadians say misinformation affected the federal election: poll

OTTAWA – More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests.

The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major impact on the election.

Almost a third (32 per cent) said it had a moderate impact, while 26 per cent said it had a minor impact on the election’s outcome.


Our gov’t bought media wants to talk to us about disinformation. Sounds legit.

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Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election

As Canadians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, they are being bombarded with misleading rightwing content on US social media platforms that has fuelled concerns about their potentially damaging role in the general election.

A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.


Evidently it’s right-wing foreign interference to point out that Carney is a globalist eco-scammer who profits from government policy and has suspect links to Communist China.

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Global News cites Soros funded WEF adjacent pro-censorship extremists as authoritative source: Domestic extremists pushing ‘corrosive’ narratives in Canada’s election

Domestic extremists pushing ‘corrosive’ narratives in Canada’s election: report

Canadian domestic extremists are using the federal election to amplify “corrosive” narratives around democracy, immigration and conspiracy theories, a new report suggests.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found Canadian extremists are capitalizing on the deteriorating relationship between Canada and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to draw people towards their movements.


Who is the Institute For Strategic Dialogue? –BBC Cites Pro-Censorship Group, Claims Growing Hate Speech on Twitter

Who funds the Institute for Strategic Dialogue?

Funding for the ISD has come from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Gen Next Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation.

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The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it’s being done in public says LPC propaganda outfit

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating 51st state threats.

And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of annexation would likely not be the intelligence agencies directed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

“I would regard Mr. Musk as a problem,” said Ward Elcock, who headed CSIS for a decade including during the 9/11 attacks and also served as national security adviser. “I think that’s on a number of fronts.”

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Canadian right-wing pundit says Russia never influenced her Tenet videos

A Canadian right-wing commentator who produced videos for a media outlet now accused of pushing Russian propaganda says she was never influenced to produce content for the embattled company.

Lauren Southern, a well-known personality in conservative circles, testified Thursday before the House of Commons public safety and national security committee in the wake of a U.S. indictment linking Tenet Media to the foreign influence operation.

“I’m not being influenced by anyone,” Southern told MPs during a testy hour of testimony.

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Social Media Companies Should be Penalized for ‘Questionable’ Information, House Report Says

Parliament should penalize companies like Google and Facebook if they fail to identify and control “undesirable or questionable” content on the internet, according to a House of Commons heritage committee report.

The November 2024 report included a recommendation that social media platforms put in place mechanisms to detect content that may be the product of disinformation or foreign interference. The report said the platforms should be required to “promptly identify such content and report it to users” and that a failure to do so “should result in penalties,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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Canadian linked to Russian influence campaign refuses to answer MPs’ questions

The House of Commons is being asked to consider whether Lauren Chen — a Canadian influencer accused of aiding a Russian propaganda campaign — should be found in contempt of Parliament after she refused to answer MPs’ questions during a parliamentary committee hearing Tuesday.

Chen was summoned to appear before the House of Commons public safety and national security committee in the wake of explosive allegations in the U.S. linking her and her husband to a foreign influence operation.

In September, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment against two Russian nationals, accusing them of setting up a conservative media outlet as a front for pro-Kremlin propaganda.

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CHR – How Hunter Biden Laptop Got The CBS News Treatment

CHR – It’s the question I get asked the most, “What happened in October 2020?”

With new allegations this week about suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in the last Presidential election, I can’t help but reflect on my own experience at CBS News — what I believe was a missed opportunity to rebut false claims it was Russian disinformation.

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Ottawa to announce changes to CBC’s mandate to better serve the Liberal Party, appoint new CEO in the next four weeks: source

After a months-long review of CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is expected to announce changes meant to modernize the public broadcaster sometime over the next four weeks.

A senior government official told CBC News the government is in the final stages of drafting what could be major legislative and regulatory changes to better position the company for the future as it grapples with seismic developments in the news and broadcasting space.

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Inside the world of Martin Sellner, millennial influencer of Europe’s far right

The Post spent time with Sellner to understand his secretive movement and how his rhetoric found its way into the Trump campaign and Austria’s election on Sunday.

SCHNELLRODA, Germany — In a food hall adorned with pastoral scenes of rural German life, Martin Sellner, self-proclaimed champion of mass migrant deportations, fielded question from a rapt audience. An ash-blond young mother raised her hand. She remarked on the importance of improving Germanic gene pools, then asked whether a people of such “progress and innovation” should honestly see themselves as run-of-the-mill humans.

“Good question,” Sellner said, responding with an answer that touched on biology, population trends and extraterrestrial invasions.

When asked directly, Sellner, 35, a far-right Austrian provocateur, will say he is no racist — but argues that each race would be happier in its own geographic corner. His Generation Identity movement, he says, adheres to nonviolent activism to protect ethno-European culture, citing Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Arab Spring as inspiration.


Trump’s deportation “rhetoric” is due more to Eisenhower than Sellner but that sort of thing just doesn’t sell smear jobs.

The Washington Post’s liars are propagating a disinformation campaign created by Germany’s government to smear the AfD with their “plan” to deport millions of non-native Germans.

“Following revelations in January that Sellner discussed remigration during a secret meeting with members of Germany’s AfD, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of German cities for days, suggesting both the extent of his enduring toxicity and the measure of his power.”

Thankfully Euroconservative exposed this lie – Correctiv Director Met With Chancellor Scholz Days Before Publishing AfD Disinfo Piece

The managing director of the disinformation-peddling media outlet Correctiv met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz days before the ‘secret’ Potsdam meeting, and the publication’s subsequent, grossly deceptive reporting on the gathering. 

The outlet’s  ‘investigative reporting’ from the meeting—in which it spread brazen lies about a non-existent Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) plan to deport millions of German citizens with migration backgrounds—propelled a wave of anti-AfD demonstrations across Germany and prompted calls for the traffic light coalition to ban the increasingly popular insurgent party.

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Terry Newman: CTV delivers another shameful example of anti-Poilievre bias

With a federal election that could come any day now, and the Liberal government’s public favour continually waning, some, shall we say, unorthodox media practices appear to be afoot, particularly in terms of how Pierre Poilievre is being presented to Canadian viewers. The Conservatives are always complaining about progressive media bias. This is what they mean.

h/t DS

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German “Citizens Council” Calls for Criminalisation of Disinformation

A German “Citizens Council” has submitted recommendations to the German Ministry of the Interior calling, among other things, for the potential criminalisation of “disinformation”. The council was assembled by the Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany’s most influential public policy think-tank, in partnership with the Ministry of the Interior itself, and it was tasked with formulating recommendations on how best to combat “disinformation”.

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