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OTTAWA Online conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protests against public health orders are helping to spread dangerous ideas laden with racism and bigotry, says a network monitoring hate groups in Canada.
The executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network said since last year people espousing hateful beliefs have linked themselves to conspiracy and anti-lockdown movements around the novel coronavirus. We have two pandemics: We have the actual pandemic and then we have this pandemic of hate, Evan Balgord said. Things are kind of getting worse both online and offline . with maybe one pandemic, we have kind of a solution for, but the hate thing, we don t have a vaccine for that.