Government of Canada representatives from the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force will provide a technical briefing to media, to update on the general election 45.

  • @[email protected]
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    323 months ago

    Is this normal, or are things getting more out of hand than normal?

    My wife has been getting those fake CBC ads on Facebook and it’s frankly disgusting Meta/FB aren’t stepping up and doing something about this. They have shadow profiles that track and collate all your logged out activity, but they can’t figure out who’s posting the same ads that violate terms? I call BS, they don’t want to find them and lose money.

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      73 months ago

      Adblocker my dude. If you guys can’t quit the platform, at least stop giving them your time and money

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        53 months ago

        Unfortunately she has older family members who won’t use anything else and that’s the only way they share family news.

        I thought I had installed ublock for her though.

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          33 months ago

          I had the same issue. I finally told my family if being in contact with me is important to them, they needed to be willing to use another tool.

          I posted a message saying it was being deleted and provided alternative contact methods. Bumped it a couple of times and deleted it.

          The end result is i found out who really cared about me, and i have fewer toxic people in my life.

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      93 months ago

      With it being called a technical briefing, it’s probably pretty benign. But…maybe it isn’t?

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        With it being called a technical briefing

        If that’s what it is, I suspect it will be explaining how Canada isn’t vulnerable to voting machines being compromised (because we don’t use those), ballot security, vote count scrutiny and similar things that people may be misinformed about.

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      113 months ago

      The Facebook Cambridge Analytica leak was mostly framed as a privacy thing but people glazed over how all that data was used to target people for politics and that was a decade ago imagine what they can do now.

      On the fake ads front like you said they’re more than happy to accept the ad revenue regardless where it comes from, the platforms is also setting records for user hours and there’s barely any political movements to do anything about it.

      If people are going to keep using those platforms they should be using altered apps and blocking as much of that stuff as they can.

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    153 months ago

    We’re already starting to see astroturfing on Reddit, and I’m sure there’s more on other platforms I don’t use. Facebook must be even more of a cesspool than usual right now.

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      103 months ago

      Just the other day a video was posted about the 23 and me bankruptcy but the title was was incorrectly set to something about prime minister Carney.

      There were literally pages and pages of bot posts.