Trudeau’s broadcaster admits that it misreported the truth about his political rival.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) admitted to spreading fake news about Conservative Party (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre.
CBC admitted it retracted a “fact check” on Poilievre’s housing crisis video, according to a report published Tuesday by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The error was added Jan. 12 on CBC’s corrections and clarifications page:
In a video presenting housing experts’ reactions to a Conservative Party video about housing affordability, CBC News incorrectly referred to average monthly mortgage costs when evaluating the video’s claim that it takes “66 per cent of the average monthly income to make payments on the average single-detached Canadian house.”
In fact, the Conservative video’s claim refers to median income and home ownership costs, which includes property taxes, utilities and other costs not mentioned in the Conservative video.
CBC’s video has been edited to remove the inaccurate mortgage comparison and clarify information about the report.
The broadcaster did not admit to spreading the false information intentionally. The correction was picked up by several competing media outlets, including the Toronto Sun.
CBC has long been accused of having a pro-Trudeau, anti-conservative bias. It has spread false information about conservatives in the past, having retracted several false stories about the Freedom Convoy.
The broadcaster’s troubled relationship with the truth has not gone unpunished. CBC has been found liable for defamation in multiple cases, as was previously reported by Toronto 99.
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Snicky
You’re an absolute clown. If you made a mistake in an article and fixed it, what would the stance be? Not to mention the fact the Sun has been a conservative mouth piece for years.