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I think that's where we're presently running into a paradox, though.

Many Canadians (as elsewhere in the world) are falling victim to propaganda like "Covid is a hoax", "Covid is a plot by Bill Gates to implant everyone in the world with microchips", "Masks don't work", "Your rights are being trampled upon", etc etc.

One crux of the messaging that comes along with those is that the government is lying to you about absolutely everything and will do whatever they can to prevent you from seeing that information and the "truth".

So the Canadian government and military working to identify and stop propaganda in any method validates the misinformation for those people who have fallen victim to it, and subsequently validates the rest of the nonsense they're ingesting that is coupled with it.

Catch 22.

So I'm just guessing that it was decided the best way to beat it is to undermine it by "being there first"... in short.



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