List of Canadian alternatives to American owned media pretending to be Canadian.
Despite no clear sources of income, they spent $153,000 on pro-oil and anti-regulation social media advertising, focused on eight postal code regions in just one month. This is an amount far greater than most genuine grassroots environmental causes have to spend on operations in a given year, let alone advertising.
Wish there were actual punishments for misinformation instead of cost-of-doing-business fines.
From OP’s link:
Undermining [local autonomy and community ability to veto major projects] with sophisticated, well-funded astroturfing campaigns is a common denominator linking several similar efforts that are taking place in Canada right now. Recent investigations have revealed a pattern of astroturf organizations, directed by individuals connected to conservative parties and/or the oil and gas sector, running “concerned citizens campaigns” in Regina, in Saskatoon and in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
These campaigns poison public discourse by flooding the proverbial “marketplace of ideas” with false and misleading information, to the point that it becomes effectively impossible to have a meaningful public conversation.
Leaving this link here in case anyone wanted a quick scroll of the Manning Centre approved media that amplifies all their shit.
Is there a non-paywall link?
