Ottawa, Europe Brief News – After a couple of weeks of topsy-turvy protest, the government has finally decided to enter into the scenes.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the Country’s emergency Act. The emergency act will enable new financial restrictions on the protests and charge harsh penalties to anyone found involved in the protest.
For most Canadian people, it is an overdue finish to a chaotic protest that has restrained trade. However, Right-wing supporters are having entirely wild opinions on the convoy.
Tucker Carlson is presenting the convoy as a working-class rebellion while Trudeau’s response has received immense criticism and some are treating it as enacting martial law. The criticism was picked up by Elon Musk deleted tweet where he compared Trudeau with Hitler.
The noticeable thing here is that all the convoy supporters are getting their news from Facebook groups, Telegram channels, and several social media influencers.
The Channels promote a sanitised version of movements like the Freedom Convoy, amplifying its Hashtag and turning its obscure extremist leader into celebrities.
And all these channels are spreading news under the influence of figures like Carlson. They are sharing news by amplifying it to get the desired results as the main aim is to provoke more and more people to join them.
From Physical Protest to Facebook to Establishment Outlets
This chain from physical protest to social media to the establishment is what has hyped up the convoy to evolve from just a local standoff to become a televised event. This move can be helpful to raise millions from supporters thousands of miles away.
The convoy’s spread across Facebook but failed to get any real popularity until Ken Windsor posted a video about the protest on Rumble(a Right-wing video platform).
In the caption of that video, Windsor dropped a link to a page “ Freedom convoy 2022” which was started four days earlier as per Facebook tools.
Windsor even posted various videos on Rumble explaining that truck drivers are planning to protest against Covid mandates 4 days before the start of the protest.
Winsdor’s Rumble video also indicates a connection to a right-wing Canadian video creator named Pat King. He was a prominent member of Canada’s yellow vest and also promoted the convoy movement.
