People use strong words like "lies" and mention video chats and platforms like Discord or Telegram, which attract barely 1% of the social media population, to downplay the influence of Google and Facebook on information, and ultimately, on democracy.
Do you really think, if their influence had not been so strong, that giants like Facebook and Google would have spent so much time and money in all sorts of ways, in recent months and years, to counter our efforts and the passage of Bill C-18?