More than two decades ago, a group of young, predominantly male internet users started congregating on an online forum called 4chan, where they circulated memes, co-ordinated pranks and orchestrated disinformation campaigns. A subset of them formed a loose collective that called itself Anonymous.
But what began as “fun and high jinks” kicked off what Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle characterizes as “a chain reaction that resulted in the alt-right online culture wars and … essentially blossomed into the rise of Trump.”
Sometimes it takes an article on something you know about to realize The Globe and Mail is a garbage news outlet
A newspaper owned by the richest family in Canada is of course going to promote the ideology of the billionaire class. That guy’s idea of “normal people” are his gardeners and his lawyers. And he’s so privileged and utterly soaked in generational wealth that his gardeners probably actually are lawyers.