(LifeSiteNews) — Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, now ranks number one in news apps for Canadians, outranking mainstream media outlets.
In an August 7 post, Elon Musk, the owner of X, celebrated X placing first among news apps downloaded from the app store in Canada, as Canadians increasingly turn to alternative media sources amid ongoing media censorship and bias.
“This indicates that a very large segment of the Canadian population no longer trusts the mainstream media,” Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.
“They view legacy news outlets like the CBC as nothing more than propaganda factories, paid by the Liberal government to spew forth its narratives,” he continued.
Since X was bought by Musk in 2023, the platform has relaxed its censorship policies, allowing for a more open discussion of controversial topics.
While by no means perfect, the app has become a valuable method of sharing censored information, especially in Canada, where most media outlets receive funding from the Liberal government.
“Generally speaking, free speech reigns on X, and that’s what people want,” Fonseca declared. “They want the ability to hear both sides of an issue, no matter how controversial. The freedom to say what they believe and not be censored.”
“The CBC, CTV, Toronto Star and all the other propaganda machines do not allow both sides of an issue to be aired in a fair or balanced manner,” he continued.
Indeed, while X sits at number one, CBC News, Canada’s crown news agency, ranks at number 9 in news apps. Similarly, CTV News is ranked at number 10.
CBC’s low ranking is likely linked to the fact that the outlet receives over a billion dollars in funding from the Liberal government each year. Liberal funding, in addition to biased reporting, has led many Canadians to consider the outlet nothing more than an arm of the Liberal party.
This January, the watchdog for the CBC ruled that the state-funded outlet expressed a “blatant lack of balance” in its covering of a Catholic school trustee who opposed the LGBT agenda being foisted on children.
There have also been multiple instances of the outlet pushing leftist ideological content, including the creation of pro-LGBT material for kids, tacitly endorsing the gender mutilation of children, promoting euthanasia, and even seeming to justify the burning of mostly Catholic churches throughout the country.
However, many Canadians are awakening to the lies and half-truths perpetuated by legacy media outlets and are instead turning to alternative media sources.
According to a 2024 global “trust” index, the majority of Canadians believe that legacy media journalists and government officials are not trustworthy and are “lying to them” regularly.
Fonseca stressed the importance of “the rapidly growing independent media orgs (…) like LifeSiteNews, Rebel News, the Western Standard, Juno News and Epoch Times. But even these alternative media rely significantly on X to amplify their content.”
“Undoubtedly, the Carney regime will try to shut down X, or force censorship on the platform through legislation and regulation, so we must fight and pray to ensure our shill globalist Prime Minister doesn’t succeed,” he warned.
“Carney would have us all become slaves to the state, without any voice or real power. Although X isn’t perfect, we need it desperately if we’re to have any hope of Canada staying ‘glorious and free,'” Fonseca declared.