Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country – Musk’s social media platform X being a problem.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-annexation-destabilizing-canada-1.7479890

38 comments

  1. I particularly like when I open the feed and there are multiple FAKE CBC / CTV headlines about Canadian politicians in the feed that are ads directly to some other site made to look like a CBC / CTV page.

  2. Canada should just ban it immediately. It’s just devolved into a cesspool of racism and incels at this point

  3. Meta has a couple of ad preference options hidden very deep within the settings, you can select “show less” for political ads.

    I feel like it’s made a difference on mine, but it also helps to never ever engage with the political posts or ads too.

    I recommend finding the settings for yourself, then also doing it for your parents too. A ton of these ads are scams as well.

  4. They have been at it for quite a while. Truckers strike, comedians like Andrew Schulz all pop up seemingly unrelated to badh up left idealogies but it seems like a coordinated strike

  7. “I would regard Mr. Musk as a problem,” said Ward Elcock, who headed CSIS for a decade including during the 9/11 attacks and also served as national security adviser. “I think that’s on a number of fronts.”

    US admitted they had “offensive cyber operations” in Russia when they shut them down on March 3rd. So this is a thing that they do. Probably time for most countries to ban twitter.

  8. America demonstrably can’t be relied upon, its time to start seriously considering ideas like r/CANZUK.

  9. Fucking ban it already. Jesus Christ, what are they waiting for???

  10. If China doesn’t have it, then why do the rest of us have to suffer it. This goes for most of the US advertising..i mean social media shite.

  11. Do not believe any political ads that aren’t focused on positive policy on behalf of the speaking party – trash ads are entirely suspect – and anyone watching Fox News daily needs cult warnings

  12. Canada has been a part of the special intelligence cooperation with the US. So if they feel threatened it should be taken serious.

  13. Ban X, Fox News etc. It’s too late for the USA, but you can save yourselves. Save me with the free speech nonsense. 

  14. People are concerned about “political ads” on twitter/x but the real issue is the non-enforcement against Russian AI/bot accounts spreading disinformation. 1 in 5 believe the insane garbage they are spreading, and that is a serious problem.

  15. Twitter is an arm of the trump regime and needs to be treated like Russia today

  18. Ban it. With Musk in a position of nearly unlimited power, it makes X an unofficial official app of the US government. Since that government is currently acting as a hostile nation, X must be treated as a hostile platform as well. It can be revisited when/if sanity returns.

  19. If X is banned we would also need to ban Postmedia news, Rebel news and all the other foreign propaganda. Meta etc. American media funded by Republican backers have way too much sway in Canada.

  20. X is a problem, but a bigger problem is much of our media is owned by a US company (Post Media) Print media is practically propaganda arm for right wing American interests and views.

  21. Let’s see what is Carney made off, but I hope he straight up bans X in his first week

  22. Why. Is. Anyone. Still. On. Fucking. Twitter?!?!?!?!?!

  23. Everyone non American needs to deactivate their x account and move away from the wingnut.

  25. If Canada can cxl Starlink, banning X shouldn’t be a problem. 😎

  29. You mean the massive PUSH of “YEAH AS A CANADIAN I WANT TO BE DER 51ST STATE! ALL OF US DO!!” that is plastered on any and every comment section anywhere? Every small cities Facebook groups have been infiltrated/compromised. Its been proven that there are bots being paid to astroturf everything with pro russian pro trump posts.

  30. its about time that american social media gets banned in the eu and canada

  31. I wish the UK and the EU would ban Twitter/X too. Musk is too much of a spiteful POS.

  32. Canada should look at regulating social media since the companies refuse to do it themselves. The disinformation campaigns are successful. Full stop. They muddy waters and promote conversations that undermine our democracy. No foreigner should have opinions on our domestic politics that have influence on our domestic politics. Foreign influence will ALWAYS be against our national interests. If X, Facebook or TikTok refuse to moderate their feeds to prevent obvious trolls and bots from spreading disinformation they should not be allowed to operate within the country.

  33. Ban X in every Western country. It will die instantly.

  34. Yeah for real. Ban it on the grounds of national security. Like NB. I feel likenits and emergency at this point

  35. It’s already happening on TikTok. There are a ton of bots pretending to be Canadians who want to join the USA. It’s very obvious.

  36. Why aren’t Europeans and Canadians banning Facebook and twitter? It’s a proven method of destabilizing a country 

  37. Between the trucker convoy, and the meteoric rise is American-like far right conservatism, we know, and it’s been a thing for a while

  38. Yes, they should. They will absolutely 100% attempt to do so, and Elon will gear his algorithm to help.

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