The city’s elected officials are pushing back against conspiracy theorists with claims about the 15-minute city and smart cities planning concepts
Fuelled by misinformation, local conspiracy theorists have expanded their scope beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and focused on another convoluted web of misinformation.
In other videos posted online by audience members, they can be heard claiming the city is striving to surveil residents, move toward digital IDs, and someone can be heard saying something about “concentration camps.” The 15-minute city idea “is a legitimate planning concept,” city CAO Ed Archer told Sudbury.com, urban planners use to talk about maximizing density and encouraging environmental stewardship.
People have extrapolated the 15-minute city to claim residents’ movements are going to be controlled to the extent that they are unable to leave their home communities and will become isolated from friends and family who live outside their 15-minute bubble. Some conspiracy theorists have claimed the City of Greater Sudbury was bought and sold as a smart city for $10 million, and that they’ve signed onto a related program. As with many conspiracy theories, this claim carries a hint of truth that has been extrapolated and taken out of context to reach the stage of misinformation.
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