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Intelligence Report Says Bots and Fake Accounts Linked to India’s Governing Party are Harassing Canadians


‘Pro-BJP’ accounts target Canadian activists, journalists and politicians, new documents tabled in foreign interference inquiry reveal

RRM Canada notes Indian media and journalists worked together to spread conspiracies, including one in which NDP leader Jagmeet Singh helped facilitate a $2.5 million payment to Rihanna for the tweet. “Pro-BJP media sources also allege that Rihanna was paid $2.5M US for her endorsement through the Canada-based PR Firm Skyrocket with funding coming from PJF and WSO,” the report states. In June 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed in Surrey BC, in a plot Justin Trudeau confirmed in September that the government believes was carried out by “agents of India.”

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