Manufacturing Blind Faith

Blacklock’s- Paid $369K To Silence Critics

Media Smarts of Ottawa, the federal contractor, was paid $369,975 for the project titled Critical Thinking In The Digital Age: Countering Coronavirus Misinformation. It encouraged media and the public to avoid questioning government advisories.

The contractor ran a Check First, Share After campaign encouraging media and the public to closely follow government announcements. Even non-government “experts” who criticized federal advisories were suspect, it said: “Trust information from official government sites.”

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5 Replies to “Manufacturing Blind Faith”

  1. Because “Censoring Critical Thinking in The Digital Age: Countering Coronahoax Information” would risk waking up even some Dippers.

  2. “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”―George Washington

    “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” – Benito Mussolini

    “Everything government says is a lie and everything it has it has stolen”. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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