‘DESTABILIZING DEMOCRACIES’: Canadian PM Names Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson as Paid By Russia
In a hearing on foreign interference, Justin Trudeau named names
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“We’ve recently seen that RT is currently funding bloggers and other YouTube personalities of the right, such as Jordan Peterson, other names that are well known, Tucker Carlson as well, to amplify messages that are destabilizing democracies.”—Justin Trudeau, October 16, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused pro-Kremlin Canadian psychologist and author, Dr. Jordan Peterson, and pro-Kremlin propagandist, Tucker Carlson, of being funded by RT, which the US State Department said is an arm of Russian military intelligence.
While testifying at a foreign interference inquiry on Wednesday, Trudeau said:
“We’ve recently seen that RT is currently funding bloggers and other YouTube personalities of the right, such as Jordan Peterson, other names that are well known, Tucker Carlson as well, to amplify messages that are destabilizing democracies.”
I reached out to Silicon Valley technologist and my co-host at RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast, High Fidelity, for comment:
“What we are finally seeing from the head of a major world government, under oath, is an affirmation of what we at RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast have been saying for years: Russia is engaged in warfare against Western Democracies.
“The victims are not scattered around on battlefields, but instead walk amongst the uninjured and inured, not even knowing they are victims. More fall daily, and the American government is still refusing to acknowledge the scale of this reality: Ukraine must hammer Putin to his knees. Only then will this terrible war on the West stop.—High Fidelity for Bette Dangerous
The recent US Department of Justice “RT indictment” named influencers who were paid millions by Tennessee-based Tenet Media, which knowingly took money from its Russian handlers. Here is my report on the RT indictment:
Neither Peterson nor Carlson were named in the DOJ indictment, but in the 277-page Doppelganger affidavit, which featured a Russian dossier giving granular detail to how the West is being infiltrated with lies from Russia, internal documents noted that Putin-aligned handlers were keeping tabs on 2,800 influencers in media, academia, comedy, social media, military veterans, etc. Nearly 600 are US-based and the names have not yet been released publicly.
Peterson denied Trudeau’s comment on X, and Carlson had not yet returned a request for comment.
And since the US State Department said that Russian covert influence activities are not journalism, therefore, we can deduce these operations are not covered by the First Amendment. My recent Hot Type column in Byline notes that JD Vance and Elon Musk continue to boost Russian influence operations on their platforms, which may be why they are crying about censorship. It’s a prebuttal to the awareness of them both being bad actors.
Carlson has not yet commented on Trudeau’s statement, and here’s a refresher on the damage Carlson does:
Investigative reporter Michael D. Weiss reminded his X/Twitter followers that the PM was under oath.
“The Prime Minister of Canada says under oath that RT, which the U.S. State Department alleges is engaged in ‘information operations, covert influence, and military procurement,’ is funding Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson.”—Michael D. Weiss, in his quote tweet of Dean Blundell
Podcaster Dean Blundell, who broke the story and recently did a long form interview with my other podcast partner, Jim Stewartson, also noted Trudeau was under oath:
“Trudeau says Russia (RT) is funding disgraced Psychologist Jordan Peterson. Turns out Jordo’s 3 month Russian sponsored Benzo rehab coma was good for business. 😉🇨🇦”—Dean Blundell on X/Twitter
“The propaganda and disinformation, misinformation activities on the part of Russia have been fairly constant in our social media, in our Canadian democracy,” Trudeau said at the hearing.
Today, as I logged into YouTube, which took down Tenet Media videos after being outed as a Russian operation, I was greeted with an ad directing me to Tim Pool’s podcast. Pool was named in the RT indictment as being among the influencers paid millions by the Russians. The pop up said: The Best News Show on YouTube.
Nowhere did it mention Pool’s recent exposure to covert influence activities, again, not journalism, according to the State Department.
Daily, I have been demanding our enforcement agencies release the names of paid Kremlin stooges, as a democracy needs good information if it is to survive.
Trudeau just gave us two more names.
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