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=== Mass media outlets ===
According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', "In an increasingly polarized political environment, the Canadian truckers became an instant [[cause célèbre]]."<ref name="NYTCC">{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=February 10, 2022|title=Opinion {{!}} The Ottawa Trucker Protests Are a Test of Democracy|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/opinion/ottawa-trucker-protests.html|access-date=February 12, 2022|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Though declaring "We disagree with protestors' cause", the newspaper conceded that "[protestors] have a right to be noisy and even disruptive."<ref name="NYTCC"/><ref name="NYTCC hot air">{{Cite news|last=Morrissey|first=Ed|date=February 15, 2022|title=Opinion {{!}} Trudeau's a hypocrite about trucker protests, says ... the NYT editorial board?|language=en-US|work=Hotair|url=https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/02/15/trudeaus-a-hypocrite-about-trucker-protests-says-the-nyt-editorial-board-n448641}}</ref> In late January, CBC host [[Nil Köksal]] pondered that "there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows. But perhaps even instigating it from, from the outset".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian news host slammed for suggesting Russia behind massive 'freedom' trucker protest|url=https://news.yahoo.com/canadian-news-host-slammed-suggesting-181934492.html|access-date=2022-02-19|website=news.yahoo.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Added perspectives">{{Cite web|title=Ethnic media provides added perspectives on "Freedom Convoy"|url=https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ethnic-media-provides-added-perspectives-141225012.html|access-date=2022-02-19|website=ca.sports.yahoo.com|language=en-CA|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219062847/https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ethnic-media-provides-added-perspectives-141225012.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In October 2022, the [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] said no foreign actors had funded or supported the convoy protests.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walsh |first=Marieke |date=2022-10-19 |title=CSIS found no foreign actors funding the convoy protests, according to public inquiry evidence |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-csis-ottawa-convoy-protests-funding/ |access-date=2022-10-19}}</ref> A 2023 study by [[Caroline Orr Bueno]] found that RT covered the protests far more than any other outlet.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Orr Bueno |first=Caroline |date=2023-01-31 |title=Russia's Role in the Far-Right Truck Convoy: An analysis of Russian state media activity related to the 2022 Freedom Convoy |journal=The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.21810/jicw.v5i3.5101 |issn=2561-8229 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
[[Rich Lowry]] of ''Politico'' argued that "The embrace of the Canadian trucker protesters by the American right is a sign that the [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]] spirit circa the early Obama years was never fully extinguished. Since then, everything has changed — most importantly, the rise of Donald Trump and his movement — and nothing has changed. It is freedom that remains the most natural and powerful Republican rallying cry."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lowry |first=Rich |date=2022-02-17 |title=How Canadian Truckers Brought Peace to the GOP's Warring Tribes |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/17/canadian-truckers-peace-gop-civil-war-warring-tribes-trump-florida-libertarians-populists-republicans-00009798 |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=Politico |language=en}}</ref>
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