U.S. right-wing media adopts the Freedom Convoy

Published: Feb. 11, 2022, 9:10 a.m.

b'Canada\\u2019s trucker\\u2019s and the \\u2018Freedom Convoy\\u2019 protests have inspired similar protests around the world, from France to New Zealand to Australia. But it\\u2019s especially drawing the adoration of Conservative commentators in the United States -- like Fox News\\u2019 Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. The \\u2018anti-mandate\\u2019 and \\u2018anti-lockdown\\u2019 movement has also become the obsession of the darker, more alt-right corners of the internet. \\n\\nToday on Front Burner, a conversation with CBC\\u2019s Washington correspondent Alex Panetta on how the trucker protest is playing out in the U.S. media, and Jared Holt, a domestic extremism researcher at the Atlantic Council\\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab, on how it\\u2019s manifesting in right-wing online spaces.'