https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-annexation-destabilizing-canada-1.7479890
Perhaps I’m just paranoid.
Canadian expat living in the UK here. Do not be so quick to dismiss these as bots.
I moved to London 6 months before the country shot itself in the ass with Brexit. Even days before the vote, literally everyone I spoke to in person and online agreed that Brexit was too stupid to happen, but my wife wasn’t convinced. She’d been spending time on right wing subreddits, reading the misinformation and vitriol. She was convinced that Leave would win.
The day after the vote, two of my work colleagues proudly announced that they’d voted to leave.
Our social spheres are small, and despite (or perhaps also because of) the internet, typically insulated from people with whom we disagree. There are very likely more Leavers out there than you might think.
Alberta has had a deep “fuck Canada” streak for as long as I can remember. It’s entirely plausible that at least some of these comments are from real idiots with real power to vote Leave, and we dismiss them at our peril.
Also Canadian in the UK. Hello from The North™.
I moved just as it was being implemented, and the people at my local who had voted leave, there weren’t many, that were shocked that they couldn’t go through the EU express lane at passport control…was frankly disturbing…Protestations of “this wasn’t the Brexit I voted for!” abounded… And like… motherfucker…this is exactly the Brexit you voted for dumbfuck!
keep reminding the people who voted for brexit until they stop talking to you…
I would, but I don’t know anyone who has. I haven’t lived in London for years, in Scotland now, and basically everyone here voted against
Has an implausibly high number of these comments perchance been posted at night hours? (I noticed that once with pro-AfD comments in Germany.)
The motherland time zone demands. It!
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Regardless of whether or not these particular comments are US intelligence, I am 100% convinced that Trump is going to try and make Alberta the Canadian Donbas.
They’ll do their little Wexit vote thing and they’ll lose, but there will be a massive amount of disinfo in all of the places you’d expect saying it was rigged, and they’ll just escalate from there. Who knows when the guns break out, but I feel like there are people down south who are planning on this leading to a military “liberation”
Albertan First Nations need to steal the spotlight.
Recent polling by Angus Reid shows that major opposition from First Nations (as secession violates their treaty rights) either would not effect Albertans/Saskatchewanians opinion on leaving or would make them more likely to want to leave
https://angusreid.org/referendum-alberta-saskatchewan-smith-moe/
I didn’t really mean opinion polls. I expect it’d be something more like this
The backend on YouTube is pretty much designed to encourage skub (ragebait/“engagement”). Having comments that are incendiary is good for the video’s performance.
Does that make it the perfect breeding ground for astroturfing and pushing misinformation? Probably. Bad actors can basically use it as a cheap form of advertising and pushing ideas that benefit them. Even the creator of the video if it was a video that has a completely opposite viewpoint of those comments still stands to benefit from having them because that increases engagement and their revenue.
So I guess my point is is that YouTube has a lot of problems and there is a multitude of reasons why comments like that have a home there and motives for them.
the shorts are good for that ragebaiting, but putting stuff out of context.
russian bots wouldve done the same, if not at a better effect than US would.
Wouldn’t exactly be hard considering how many porn bots I see.
Obviously not from Alberta. Proper grammar and punctuation is a dead give away.
Danielle is greedy for Canada’s oil (not Alberta’s oil…Canada’s oil) and she is willing to use all kinds of chicanery while she gets more and more in cahoots with our southern neighbours.
Canada has a history of separatists, most notably Quebec who held two referendums on the issue.
The first (in 1980) was rejected by 60% of Quebec voters. The second (in 1995) was extremely close – 50.6% to 49.4% against separation.
After the last vote the Quebec separatist movement seemed to die down a bit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement
While we should pay attention to what some Albertans say on the issue I am hopeful that others will look to Brexit and Quebec for teachable moments.
This has been happening for a while on shit like toktok. I personally suspected Russia.
Hey, totally not an American agent here. Comments have totally always been like that. Just ignore it and don’t push back, troll them, or engage in anyway. You should just post about how you don’t like this stuff on Lemmy where it’s just us here.
this is everywhere. I can’t read comments on UK news videos because they’re spammed with absolutely vile sewage spewed from LOADS of accounts. definitely botting going on.
We’ll see. If think USA is pulling a Crimea with Alberta. It’s the same strategy with separatists.
Canada should ban YouTube for being foreign interference with their sovereignty.
It’s likely not even a US op, and division like this benefits places like China and Russia even more.
All the US did was take Russia off the cyberthreat list and stop monitoring their VPNs. The Russian bots have been very obvious across all US platforms.
A data scientist supposedly uses emojis like that?!
Have you seen Git project READMEs? Also what’s the problem with it really?
It was a tweet, not a dissertation.
“Data scientist” (also known as a “scientist”) here.
Yes.
Indeed, a great way to make your “unreadable” bullet point list into a “normie” palatable wall of text.
America is Russia.
Cant spell russia without usa!
Amerussia
It’s time to recognize that the US is fully capable and has deployed propaganda operations throughout the world over the years. We may or may not have been a target so far, but the more we try to decouple, the more we’re becoming a likely target. And they’re not gonna come out and say we’re being targeted.
Why not both meme?
