Fraudster Caroline Orr Bueno Attempts to Link Canadian Trucker Convoy to Russia
Fraudster Caroline Orr Bueno Attempts to Link Canadian Trucker Convoy to Russia
Years after being exposed for bilking thousands of dollars for a phony Hawaii trip to investigate Tulsi Gabbard, Orr Bueno takes aim at the Canadian Freedom Convoy.
By Dan Cohen
UPDATE: Shortly after publication, Caroline Orr Bueno accused me of libel and threatened to have a lawyer send me a letter, in a transparent attempt to scare me into deleting my article.
She similarly threatened me in 2019 after I exposed her grift, which in describe later in this article. Legal threats are apparently her go-to intimidation tactic.
Caroline Orr Bueno has published a new report claiming to expose Russian involvement in the 2020 Canadian Freedom Convoy, in which thousands of truckers blockaded the capital city of Ottawa in protest against authoritarian mandates for pharmaceutical injections, falsely labelled as “vaccines.”
As I have documented in years past, Bueno is a notorious purveyor of disinformation whose fraudulent work consistently aligns with establishment agendas.
In 2019, she announced that she would investigate then Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for alleged links to Syrian president Bashar al Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Her supposed source for her claim about Gabbard was a phony Russian influence tracker – similar to the Hamilton 68 scam – that was developed by a firm called New Knowledge. As I reported in 2018, New Knowledge, run by Obama administration alumni and spies, admitted to brazenly interfering in a 2020 Alabama special election.
I exposed Orr Bueno’s grift in a Twitter thread and subsequent RT America report (where I was then a correspondent) which was scrubbed as part of Google/Youtube’s mass censorship of Russian media in 2022.
Orr and her fellow fraudsters, including her soon-to-be husband Avi Bueno, publicly boasted that they would be spending times in resort bars and jacuzzis.
Orr Bueno purged her Twitter timeline of the episode after I exposed her, however, her tweets announcing the crowdfunding campaign are archived on the Wayback Machine.
Orr Bueno’s GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign remains active, though she removed references to traveling to Hawaii.
Faking Russian Involvement in the Freedom Convoy
Orr Bueno’s latest analysis claiming Russia was involved in the Canadian Freedom Convoy was published in the Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare.
Unsurprisingly, it’s as thin on evidence as her claims about Gabbard’s ties to Putin and Assad.
The opening paragraph states that the report contains an “analysis of Russia’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy via media and social media” – falsely equating Russian state media coverage of the protest movement with involvement. She adds that “it is reasonable to infer that there was Russian involvement in the 2022 truck convoy” though qualifies the claims with “the scope and impact remain to be determined.”
This fasely equivalence was immediately called out on Twitter, to which Orr Bueno did not respond.
Beyond using a false equivalence as a starting point, Orr Bueno repeatedly cites reports from the U.S. State Department Global Engagement Center, which was created by self-identified “chief propagandist” Richard Stengel. She also relies on a report co-authored by Renee DiResta, who led the New Knowledge election interference operation.
The majority of the analysis is dedicated to showing how much Russian state media outlets RT, Sputnik, and others which the U.S. State Department alleges are Russian state-affiliated though has provided no evidence, covered the trucker protest.
It may be that Russian state media outlets covered the peaceful protest movement and the Trudeau government’s crackdown much more than western corporate and state media outlets, which sought to marginalize and demonize the protesters. This, of course, is all within the purview of news coverage, and it no way constitutes involvement or interference, as Orr Bueno alleges.
In the conclusion, Orr Bueno contradicts her own thesis, stating that “It is unlikely that this coverage had a meaningful direct impact on the convoy movement” and says that it “may have influenced supporters and participants through more subtle and indirect pathways, including through social media platforms like Telegram.”
Nonetheless, she ends by painting her Russian interference fantasy as "a starting point for further investigation looking at the reach and impact of Russian state media’s coverage of the convoy” – apparently hoping Canadian intelligence agencies will notice.
From her fraudulent investigation into Tulsi Gabbard, to her bogus analysis of Russia’s involvement in the Canadian trucker envoy, Caroline Orr Bueno perfectly exemplifies how nearly all of those who claim to be defenders against disinformation are the chief purveyors of disinformation themselves.
The remaining question is, on whose behalf is she acting?
a very dangerous woman
Gotta love clowns like her. #u$ele$$ except to the 1%.