... protesters appear to be mobilizing through social media, including Facebook groups such as “ Ontario Protests and Freedom to Assemble Information Page.”
The purported “administrator” of that page is a Barrie, Ont., woman who posted a message Friday detailing the time and location of Trudeau’s Bolton event and inquiring whether anyone was “going to heckle” him.
Zelda Orser said in an interview Saturday that her role was strictly to post a screenshot of a notice that had been posted elsewhere on social media about the Bolton event. She said she has been administrating the Ontario protest page temporarily because the originator, Naz Obredor, was banned by Facebook for 30 days. The page, she said, is intended to simply inform people about various protests over pandemic restrictions.
She said the page is not intended to be partisan.
“I didn’t attend (the Bolton event). I didn’t organize it … If people want to go and act like idiots, that’s on them,” Orser said.
One Facebook comment, a screenshot of which was posted to Twitter, wondered whether someone was going to punch Trudeau in his “communist face.” ...
theline.substack.com
