Thu Mar 31, 2022 – 3:30 pm EDTThu Mar 31, 2022 – 3:30 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A top Canadian government public safety manager has claimed without any evidence that the truckers involved in the Freedom Convoy were a threat to “social cohesion” by spreading “disinformation” online.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Ryan Schwartz, who is an acting director-general for Canada’s Department of Public Safety’s cybersecurity branch, claimed truckers’ use of the web was unruly.
Schwartz said that “an area worth examining” from the “recent blockades in February” are the effects “of misinformation and disinformation which can cascade across social media platforms.”
He continued saying such “disinformation” can be used “to incite certain responses, shall we say, that have negative and disruptive consequences.”
“Misinformation and disinformation is something that can have very strong destabilizing effects from a critical infrastructure stability and reliability perspective, but also in terms of social cohesion,” claimed Schwartz.
He then noted that is “something as well that I think I would like to flag to the committee.”
Despite his claims, Schwartz was not able to show any examples of misinformation or disinformation, nor did he say what the term “social cohesion” meant.
Schwartz’s
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Christian Journal or its editors