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Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election (www.ft.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

Posted by Paris Marx at https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/114407387291957572

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 24 points 1 week ago

Twitter and facebook are the two main platforms used by russia to deploy their weaponized disinformation and both musk and zuck steadfastly refuse to act against it.

It's time we sanction twitter and meta as russian military contractors.