CBC Busted—Fact Checkers Get Facts Wrong!
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Summary
In a formal correction, CBC News has acknowledged the latest in a string of errors under the guise of fact checking management. The broadcaster has been sued on multiple occasions for defamation and some of those cases led to hefty judgments from the court. However, under long time president Catherine Tate, CBC did not get any better and continued its habit of smearing conservatives.
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it is a pillar of our democracy and everything that we do is exactly to your point to combat
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disinformation it's why we have something on our website said that's that's called get the facts
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when somebody says something that's inaccurate we correct it hey cbc has been caught once again
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spreading fake news about pure polyev and conservatives this latest report comes from
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black locks reporter let's take a look at that cbc news has acknowledged the latest in a string of
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errors under the guise of fact checking management in a formal correction admitted a cbc producer got
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her facts wrong and purporting to correct others comments on election results in carlton ontario
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we need the public to feel safe that we are a beacon for that truth cbc quietly added a correction to one
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of its videos on may 15th which read correction in a previous version of this video the section about
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alleged gerrymandering included an incorrect statement that some blame the liberal government
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in fact there was no reference to the government in the source material the source video is from
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conservative commentator mario zalea that raised concerns about recent changes to riding boundaries
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and pure polyev's riding of carlton so get this cbc put out a fact check but then it turned out that
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the facts in their fact check were wrong think about that for a second now some might brush this off as
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an innocent mistake however this isn't the first time that cbc has been caught doing this as i previously
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reported in my blog toronto 99 the cbc has a long history of spreading fake news about conservatives
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for example it even admitted to spreading fake news about the freedom convoy the broadcaster has been
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sued on multiple occasions for defamation and some of those cases led to hefty judgments from the court
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to be fair to cbc some of these cases happened long in the past however under long time president
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catherine tate cbc did not get any better and continued its habit of smearing conservatives check out this
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video right here we've been talking a lot about misinformation and disinformation being spread
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and i'm wondering if you how difficult is it for the cbc to manage stuff that we've even heard in
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this committee today when we hear the viewership metric being misrepresented right and we're hearing
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the the ad numbers being misrepresented we've heard the leader of the opposition um say he's going to
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take over the cbc building on front street and turn it into housing i think that's the only reason we
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would have heard anything about cbc real estate today would you respond to how difficult it is as
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a public broadcaster to have elected officials at your throats all the time i will speak on behalf of
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not only my management team but the entire uh 7500 people that work at cbc radio canada it is extremely
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difficult to not have the love and the support for the work that we do however we continue to do it
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because we believe that serving canadians english and french and indigenous is worth it it is a pillar
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of our democracy and everything that we do is exactly to your point to combat disinformation it's
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why we have something on our website that's that's called get the facts when somebody says something
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that's inaccurate we correct it it is absolutely critical that canadians can count on us we saw the
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numbers during the covid years 25 million canadians were visiting our digital sites because they knew
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they could depend on us and we as i said before we are the only service coast to coast to coast we're
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running transmission towers hundreds of them across the north without cbc you lose that connectivity
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which is essential to our democracy and to our sense of belonging and social cohesion in this country
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so take claims that she wants cbc to be seen as the beacon of truth when in reality it's nothing
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more than the liberals ministry of propaganda now the time of filming this video cbc has a new ceo
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a woman by the name of marie philly bouchard and this mistake happened on her watch so it appears
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that even with a new ceo cbc has continued its long-standing practice of smearing conservatives
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and if you want to guess why that reason is go ahead i'm not going to tell you that everything
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cbc publishes is fake however cbc has a long history of smearing conservatives and this is one of
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the reasons that conservatives are turning away from cbc and other legacy media outlets but anyway what
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do you think should cbc be defunded should mario zalea sue them let me know in the comment section
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ongoing destruction of western civilization so if you like this type of content don't forget to like
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