Ontario

2788 readers

31 users here now

A place to discuss all the news and events taking place in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Rules

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No porn.
No Ads / Spamming.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

Rumblestiltskin

[email protected]

163

Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election (www.ft.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by zhenbo_endle to c/ontario

20 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

Posted by Paris Marx at https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/114407387291957572

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Lets face it, if you are still on shitter you are either right-wing or extremely dumb

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't think there is an "or" there.

[–] zhenbo_endle 4 points 3 days ago

IHMO it's not either-or. It's both-and

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Sadly there are extremely dumb people that aren't conservative, its seriously impressive how they combine completely contradictory opinions

[–] swagmoney 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

my partner is still on Xitter 😭 I've tried but failed to convince them to abandon that shithole site

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Sorry comrade. I feel your pain.

I have a good friend who has been mildly but annoyingly radicalized by Twitter and Facebook. I told him that I don't click on any of the X or Instagram links he sends, and endured a tirade of nonsense, which I basically ignored. He tells me that "he learns things on Twitter that he wouldn't learn elsewhere". Yes, like Nazi propaganda! 😢

[–] argh_another_username 8 points 3 days ago

I’d include whoever works there. During the first year, ok, it’s time to find another job. Now, no, you’re just one of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I've got family that lives on an island. They've been holding onto twitter as the only way to get ferry updates.

I only recently found out, so have been switching the family (and slowly other islanders) to Nitter to follow that single account.