Claiming we need government-funded public broadcaster to protect us from social media and disinformation is ridiculous

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CBC is needed to save Canada from American billionaires who own social media platforms – what an utterly insane proposition.

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But after CBC host David Cochrane posited it on air, it’s being treated as gospel truth by Liberals and CBC supporters.

The idea was raised during a panel discussion on Power and Politics about defence spending and Canada meeting its NATO target that took a bizarre turn. Emilie Nicolas, a columnist with the Le Devoir newspaper went on a rant about how dangerous Elon Musk is as owner of X while being so close to Trump.

That’s when Cochrane took the conspiracy theory from Nicolas and ran with it.

“Let me lay out the scenario for you,” he said to panelist Garry Keller.

“Pierre Poilievre wins the election next year, he defunds the CBC, he ends the media subsidies to the National Post, the Toronto Star, the Globe........

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