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It's always surprised me how the governments in power have done almost nothing to counteract this, given how political the misinformation can be.

As an example, the federal liberal government in Canada is facing an onslaught of very right wing American-style propaganda. Why not actually take steps to minimize this?

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Do you have any examples of this propaganda? I live in Canada and I'm not sure what you are talking about

Didn't a bunch of q-anon wierdos take a ton of money from american conservatives to organize "grass roots" anti-vax protests a while back, which led to some kind of plot to assassinate canadian cops?

I believe that a significant quantity of right-wing posts, on Reddit, Facebook, etc. are not only shared by idiots, but are in fact blatant political cyber-warfare.

Just as an example: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1CZ2OF/

Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romana_Didulo didn't emerge in a vacuum.

https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/cyber-threats-canadas-de...

Also a bunch of extreme/obnoxious fake far left and right wing posts, basically rage bait. But it’s difficult to separate what’s fake and what’s not. Some people genuinely adopt the positions of the fake posters which is completely baffling and sad

Honestly with targeting and algorithmic curation you might never see any of it unless you are the desired audience. That’s certainly the case for me. Once, I watched some reels of a comedian (who apparently was popular on the right) that I found funny, and then for a few days my feed included this American super macho type content

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