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Canadian State Media Pauses Twitter Activity After Accurately Being Labeled State Media

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Canadian broadcaster CBC announced it was pausing its Twitter activity in response to being accurately labeled ‘state media’ by the social media network.

As we highlighted yesterday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had its Twitter accounts tagged with the term “government-funded media,” prompting the Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre to tweet, “Now people know that it is [Canadian PM Justin] Trudeau propaganda, not news.”

Despite the CBC protesting against the measure, the assertion that it is “government-funded media” is completely true.

In its own 2021-22 annual analysis, CBC reported receiving $1.24 billion Canadian dollars (US$930 million) in government funding. The broadcaster is a Crown corporation, and therefore owned entirely by the state.

This meets the requirements for Twitter’s guidelines, which note that the “government-funded media” label will be applied “where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.”

CBC claimed that the label was unfair because it is “wholly owned by the state but operated at arm’s length from government,” which has no influence on its editorial output.

Yeah, right. As if.

Now CBC has prolonged its hissy fit at being (accurately) defined as state media by hitting pause on all Twitter activity.

“Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way,” CBC spokesperson Leon Mar said on Sunday evening.

“Consequently, we will be pausing our activity on our corporate Twitter account and all CBC and Radio-Canada news-related accounts.”

In other words, the CBC is crying and taking its ball home over being rightly exposed as a government-funded platform.

In doing so, they are following the example of US outlets National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), who also stopped tweeting after being (again accurately) labeled government-funded media.

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The Truth About GB News

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The feigned outrage over Laurence Fox is purely motivated by what they’ve wanted from the very beginning – to get GB News taken off air and shut down.

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“Don’t Be Intimidated” By The Censors – Tucker Carlson Urges Americans To Fight Back By ‘Telling The Truth’

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In a brief clip of him speaking in Utica, MI, Tucker Carlson expresses his deep concern over widespread acceptance of dishonesty in public life, lamenting, “what’s true? The true things are the things that you can’t say.”

The former Fox News man rages at the lack of penalties for public figures who lie or display incompetence; contrasting this with the societal backlash against those who aim to speak their own truths, suggesting that in today’s society, “the only penalty is for noting what’s true.”

“Every society penalizes something…” In America, “it’s telling the truth.”

Drawing a parallel with foreign (banana republic) governments, Carlson recounts a recent experience in Buenos Aires that exposed the government’s dishonesty about the Argentine peso’s exchange rate. He emphasizes, “so the government lies about the value of its own currencies,” reflecting on the economic lies and falsehoods and manipulations (think non-farm payrolls jobs data revised lower every month this year for instance) of the US government.

Further into the speech, he points out the pattern of backlash he believes truth-tellers face, noting, “first they’ll tell you you’re hurting someone’s feelings… then they call you insane… the third thing they do is just criminalize telling the truth.”

He raises concerns about the role of significant U.S. institutions like the FBI and CIA, alleging they are partisan, and mentions, “when federal employees… take an aggressive position on the side of one political party, you can’t have a fair election.”

Lastly, he touches upon the 2020 U.S. presidential election, suggesting potential irregularities and fraud, blasting tech oligarchs’ influence in silencing the truth-sayers.

“If some oligarchs… spent nearly half a billion dollars to control the mechanics of the Bolivian election in 2020, we would say it’s not a legitimate election.”

Tucker closes by encouraging Americans to stand up against the censors: “don’t let them,” he exclaims, urging listeners“don’t be intimidated, your children’s future depends on your bravery.”

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The Truth About Brand

Of course it’s political.

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The media assured us claims Brand was the subject of a coordinated political attack were baseless “conspiracy theories”.

Now the political class, the media and literally *the government*, is carrying out a coordinated political attack to unperson him from all public platforms.

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