Mark Gerretsen posted on Twitter yesterday copying tweets from fake a Freedom Convoy Twitter account Canada Day Convoy and posted them on twitter as Pierre Poilievre’s Base.
Mark Gerretsen has since deleted the Tweet and posted that he was mistaken about the fake Canada Day Convoy twitter account as being a protest organizer.
People are still upset about Mark Gerretsen posting misinformation in the first place. Once posted, even if later deleted, a post has already been read, copied or re-tweeted as truth.
“Let me get this straight Mark…Pierre stops & talks to a few of the convoy participants & you conflate that to them being his base? Really? That’s a huge stretch of logic, even for a Lib patsy like you.“
“Liberals: stop spreading false and misleading information we need to make a law Liberals: we’ll keep lying through out teeth cause we just make laws not follow them“
“For days & days people have posted that it was a fake account! You were told over & over this….yet here you are..damage done RESIGN! “
I’ve had a few people reach out to me and walk me through some pretty convincing reasons to believe that, although likely a pro-convoy supporter, not likely the organizers. So, no sense feeding into someone else’s ulterior motive – whatever it may be.
— Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@MarkGerretsen) June 26, 2022
It is unknown who the Canada Day Convoy account belongs to. Some have speculated Rebel News is associated, but there is no evidence that Rebel News is involved as Rebel News typically includes credit to their work.