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

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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.

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[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

The oligarch did the thing as expected.

this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025

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