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Corrosive power of social media today means people believe total nonsense, writes McElroy

The corrosive power of social media in having people believe total nonsense and not critically analyze what they are being drawn into was illuminated with astonishing clarity in the Freedom Convoy Inquiry. As Winston Churchill was fond of saying, democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others, writes Tom McElroy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

December 12, 2022

Re: "Trudeau should trust himself to go off script more often," (The Hill Times, Dec. 5, 2022, editorial). While I am totally in tune with the feelings expressed in The Hill Times' editorial about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's testimony at the Eme...

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