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Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney. The FT’s analysis, in collaboration with a team of researchers at the University of Southern California led by Luca Luceri, identified a network of suspicious accounts promoting rightwing memes and news sources collected from posts appearing for the queries: #cdnpoli, Canada, Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre. Cyabra, a Tel Aviv-based company that tracks disinformation, also uncovered a widespread bot-driven campaign on various social media platforms against Carney, in which fake accounts portrayed him as an “unelected elitist” and spread doctored images.
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