“Every few days with the anger, violence and threats to silence getting worse. There’s a clear, sustained and extremely organized ongoing hate campaign against Canadian journalists since last year. Beyond the sympathetic messages from their social media followers, there is little institutional help, whether from law enforcement agencies or the platforms themselves, where much of the targeting occurs. Both Gilmore and Eitizaz described spending hours on hold trying to report the death threats to police. We cannot let perfection be the enemy of the good — not with our personal safety and collective democracy at stake.

Source: thestar August 11, 2022 03:35 UTC