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

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Lets face it, if you are still on shitter you are either right-wing or extremely dumb

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      18 hours ago

      I’ve got family that lives on an island. They’ve been holding onto twitter as the only way to get ferry updates.

      I only recently found out, so have been switching the family (and slowly other islanders) to Nitter to follow that single account.

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        1 day ago

        Sadly there are extremely dumb people that aren’t conservative, its seriously impressive how they combine completely contradictory opinions

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      my partner is still on Xitter 😭 I’ve tried but failed to convince them to abandon that shithole site

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        16 hours ago

        Sorry comrade. I feel your pain.

        I have a good friend who has been mildly but annoyingly radicalized by Twitter and Facebook. I told him that I don’t click on any of the X or Instagram links he sends, and endured a tirade of nonsense, which I basically ignored. He tells me that “he learns things on Twitter that he wouldn’t learn elsewhere”. Yes, like Nazi propaganda! 😢