Canadian media industrial complex a prime platform for misinformation

Canadian media’s penchant for whiteness is well documented, purposeful, and tends to render issues like the rising authoritarianism of the far right—and white supremacy, in general—as largely innocuous.

Some headlines following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s March 23 address to the European Parliament focused on remarks from far-right detractors. The heightened attention given to otherwise fringe actors allows for far-right groups to convert the attention and funnel the public into their media ecosystem, writes Erica Ifill. Screenshot courtesy of CPAC

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

March 30, 2022

OTTAWA—Let’s continue in our next chapter of Nazi Acceptability Politics (I need to trademark this), or what I like to call taking a NAP in the face of the rising influence of the far right. Today’s episode features the Canadian media industrial complex

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