Watch: Canadian journalist Rachel Gilmore links Freedom Convoy to ‘Russian interference’
“It was an intriguing time to be monitoring those Telegram channels because, all of a sudden, the ones that had been focused on the Convoy and COVID—groups with tens of thousands of members already inclined to distrust experts, government, media, and institutions—shifted to discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Often, they claimed the invasion was justified for reasons the government and mainstream media supposedly wouldn’t tell you,” she explained.