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Originally Posted by wireframe
Why would Russia bother doing something that we Canadians are clearly willing to do ourselves?
edit: I'm trying to say that many Canadians participated in and supported this extremist occupation. Blaming it on Russia or any other external actor ignores the real actions of real Canadians. There is home-grown extremism in Canada and we need to be honest about that and deal with it.
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If you like just one tweet, video, Facebook post, the algorithm is going to alter what you see.
You might like a post calling Trudeau a muppet. There’s nothing wrong with that.
But the more you interact with that content, the greater the chance you’ll encounter content that has been weaponized by the Russian state against the west.
I do appreciate how crazy this sounds, but look at what’s happened. Russia is locked out of Twitter for one day, and suddenly anti-Trudeau topics don’t crack the top-30 trends for Canadian twitter. Are we to believe these freedom-lovers have decided to fall in line behind the PM during this time of crisis that could still escalate into World War III? That seems unlikely.
None of this is accidental. Russia has been doing this with social media for eight years (probably longer) and they’re really good at it.
A few years back, when I still needed a prescription to buy weed legally, the doctor writing my scrip asked if I’d been experiencing any paranoia. This would’ve been in early 2017.
I said “I think the Russians are ####ing with us” and he laughed.
Well, they are. They have been for a long time.
Boy, do I hate being right.