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

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• orclev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    from recent reports there’s a bunch of Canadian billionaires backing the effort, hoping for DOGE style purge of governmenr

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    • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Facebook is a cancer.

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  • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I will allow deadnaming in this case.

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It has _Meta_stacised.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope Canada does better dealing with their fascist stupid people problem than the US did.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At one point in time, when I went searching for “Canada patriotic image”, this is what I got:

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And yet somehow they’ve got American flag hung pickup truck douchebag Trumpies. It’s baffling.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jail them. You spread lies to influence elections? Jail. Bye bye.

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their office is downtown, go down and ask to talk to someone. Don’t leave until they make you.

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• considerealization@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How legal is this kind of activity? Do we not have regulations against CPAC-like activity?

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• crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A little background on the guy running it: www.desmog.com/canada-proud/

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• Punchshark@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL ~pp~

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• gargolito@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Another conservative voice being single out! /s

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