Well yeah, duh.
They left out the Trelon administration.
Nah, “trelon” sounds way too cool for them. They don’t deserve that. I’d go with E-lump. It sounds more stupid and revolting (to me at least)
[EDIT] WHOA wait, is that a triple portmanteau of Trump/Elon/Felon?
The government has already admitted that there’s been evidence of tampering for over a decade now by China, though how significant of a swing that has isn’t known. I’d like to think it was quite minor, but who really knows.
On the other hand, Russia is pretty famous for its botnet attacks on the US elections for a while now, basically early AI based attacks. Their fingerprints are all over twitter during the last several elections, not to mention the biggest driver of quite a few conspiracy theories.
This isn’t a case of “very likely”, but rather practically guaranteed. The question is whether the countermeasures will be effective enough or not.
Every democratic election is targeted. Some more than others.
Election interference, once a pretext for war, is SOP now.
And the US.
They were already enormously successful with the US last year, so now onto its neighbors.
I mean the US will be targeting our election.
So they still have the necessary departments and employees to do that?
You mean the media you’ve seen every day your entire life? The news agencies that are owned by Americans perhaps? The social media platforms that millions of Canadians use every day? The American big box stores where you buy your kids clothes and dog food? The multitude of advertisements for American goods on your Canadian tv and radio stations maybe? No American influence here at all.
Welcome to the future where three letter agencies are replaced by two and four letter ones and American influence and exceptionalism has been fed to you so long it’s normal for you.
I think there’s still a difference between state and corporate based propaganda, no?
I think there’s still a difference between state and corporate based propaganda
Only in who benefits.
The targets of that propaganda are still diminished, regardless of who is manipulating them.
In a world where those things were separated, maybe.
Not when the state is controlled by corporations and oligarchs that own all the media.
That was my first thought exactly
And USA. Come on.
And Musk-rat.
How can I help fight this crap?
Defend CBC to your family and friends and coworkers if you can. We’re probably not really the target audience for misinformation, but they might be,. Their votes count and they can spread that misinformation too
This. I used to kinda get why people hate on CBC. But now? It’s needed more than ever.
Honestly I’ve never actually needed to defend them to anyone in person.
I have, it’s exhausting because those who have fallen for the lie are about as quick as molasses on a good day.
Use an adblocker and avoid social media. Use only official sources of information (i.e. party’s official website, elections canada, etc.).
Avoid news that’s either American owned, heavily bias (left or right), or seems influenced to post clickbait.
Contact elections Canada about placing safeguards!
That’s a good idea, thank you
Inner Charlie Angus intensifues
And here in /c/Canada is just where we’ll see it.
I’ve heard reports it’s already ramping up on the Meta platforms.
You should encourage people off of the book of faces. One replacement is Mastodon on the mstdn.ca server.
I know it is less friendly than the Zuk’s system but it is not hosted by an US server.
I recentely deleted all my meta accounts. Still a few weeks until its permanent.
The Hybrid War really ramps up close to an election. We’ve had some pretty serious attacks during a the last elections. Germany held and Romania as well. Though the latter had to take some really serious action. Hopefully your security services can keep a lid on it.
