How to spot a social media liar, continued

Yesterday, I wrote about a Fox News contributor spreading BS stories on Twitter about a violent crackdown on “freedom convoy” protesters in Ottawa, and only deleting her Tweet several hours later, after the damage was done.

But that’s Fox News. No would should expect any better from an American right-wing tabloid TV channel. Thankfully, here in Canada, our journalists have real standards and would never leave up tweets containing false [record scratch]

The Times did in fact have several reporters in Ottawa covering the “freedom convoy.” As of this writing, two days later, Off’s tweet suggesting otherwise is still up.

For those of you lucky enough to be unfamiliar with the insular world of Canadian media/political Twitter, this story shattered monocles all over the country this past weekend, with many journalists and Liberals - sorry for being redundant there - threatening to cancel their NYT subscriptions. (In the future, everyone will cancel their New York Times subscriptions for f…