Elon Musk trolling the CBC by attaching a description of it as “69% Government\u002Dfunded Media” on its CBC Twitter account has liberal heads exploding across the country.
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“To be clear,” Fenlon wrote, “no government has involvement or influence on the journalism of CBC News and Radio-Canada Info, our French-language service. Zero. Other media organizations in Canada, including Postmedia, receive some government funding, but nowhere near the annual amount spent on the national broadcaster.He was already posting similar labels on the Twitter accounts of similar news organizations in other countries, prior to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre asking him to do the same for the CBC.
The CBC argued the Conservatives had infringed on its copyright by using a few short CBC clips on social media.
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