A video that showed up in my recommended feed of YouTube perked my interest. The title of it was so blatantly false that I had to watch it and see what the vloggers .... oops podcasters ... were trying to sell.
The title is "Is Justin Trudeau A Coward For Fleeing Canada During Freedom Convoy Protests." Now I know the yanks like to conflate what is going on in Canada with the "Freedom Truckers" and spin it whatever way.
I listen to the video and it starts off with the podcaster, Patrick Bet-David reading. He stated that "the PM and his family were moved from their home to an undisclosed location somewhere in the city (Ottawa) due to security concerns ... " As far as I know Ottawa is still part of Canada, in fact it is the Capitol, unless there has been a huge change that Canadians were not told about. So, how does the VERY first statement made go along with the title that they gave the podcast/video? Well, it wasn't the podcaster that gave this clip its title. It was a YouTube channel called Valuetainment that took a clip from the podcast and shared it.
I understand that people like to sensationalize things, especially on social media, so they get more views/hits. The first thing I wondered after reading the title was is this a deliberate falsehood or just the result of ignorance? (The true definition of ignorance, a lack of knowledge or information.) Well, in the first 15 seconds of the video Mr Bet-David makes it quite clear that they he has the proper information, the PM was moved to undisclosed location in Ottawa, and the reason that was given. Which means the title is an intentional falsehood to sensationalize the clip and it was done by the YouTube created by Patrick Bet-David.
I was reading to give Mr. Bet-David the benefit of the doubt that someone took his clip and gave it that false title. However, I did look at the informationin the About section for Valuetainment. It is a YouTube channel set up by ... rum roll please ... Patrick Bet-David. So, it seems that is was a deliberately dishonest title just to get hits.
