A little background on the guy running it: www.desmog.com/canada-proud/
A Toronto company is deliberately spreading hyperpartisan lies on Facebook. It owns a page called "Canada Proud" and has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting voters
Submitted 10 hours ago by dwazou@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html
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crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 1 hour ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Jail them. You spread lies to influence elections? Jail. Bye bye.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Facebook is a cancer.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
It has _Meta_stacised.
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I will allow deadnaming in this case.
orclev@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Going to be real interesting to see where that money is coming from. My bet is some combination of the worst of the US political “thinktanks” like the federalist society, Russian assets, and mega corporations like Amazon.
droopy4096@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
from recent reports there’s a bunch of Canadian billionaires backing the effort, hoping for DOGE style purge of governmenr
orclev@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Ah, so homegrown scum. I kind of lump them under the mega corporation header though as the goal for them is to eliminate regulations and oversight so they can pillage to their hearts content. Really trying to speed run that late stage capitalism dystopia.
gargolito@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Another conservative voice being single out! /s
db2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I hope Canada does better dealing with their fascist stupid people problem than the US did.
tal@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
At one point in time, when I went searching for “Canada patriotic image”, this is what I got:
db2@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And yet somehow they’ve got American flag hung pickup truck douchebag Trumpies. It’s baffling.
considerealization@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
How legal is this kind of activity? Do we not have regulations against CPAC-like activity?
Punchshark@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL ~pp~
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Their office is downtown, go down and ask to talk to someone. Don’t leave until they make you.