Ottawa has withdrawn sponsorship from a European disinformation conference whose program includes panels framing the U.S. government as a foreign-interference risk.
The panels state what intelligence watchers whisper: American information operations now worry allies too. But saying it on a sponsored stage, weeks into a trade war, costs more than silence.
Torontonians swim in cross-border narratives daily — U.S. media, U.S. platforms, U.S. politics beamed north 24/7. Naming the source of the flood shouldn't be controversial. Funding the naming, apparently, is.
Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.
Panels on U.S. interference risk clashed with trade-war diplomacy.
A European disinformation summit in Lithuania.