Sat Apr 2, 2022 – 1:37 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A new Canadian “expert advisory group on online safety” tasked with giving the government an opinion on how to regulate the internet via new legislation has among its ranks a known hoax spreader.
According to a Blacklock’s Reporter article about the online “safety panel,” Bernie Farber, who is chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAN) and whose career has focused on human rights and anti-racism, is listed as being a member.
Farber in February made media headlines for falsely posting a photo on Twitter of an anti-Semitic flyer that he claimed was found “in plain sight” during Ottawa’s Freedom Convoy.
The flyer was proven to be not connected at all to the trucker Freedom Convoy after journalist Jonathan Kay noted in a February 6 tweet that he found an identical flyer photo posted by someone in Florida the month before.
The original tweet by Farber has since been deleted.
The group CAN has been known to work with the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center in the U.S., and also got money from the Canadian government in 2020 as part of an “inclusion” grant.
Farber himself has
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