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A Toronto company is deliberately spreading hyperpartisan lies on Facebook. It owns a page called "Canada Proud" and has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting voters (www.nytimes.com)

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The facebook page Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources. But the posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The New York Times.

One of its posts this month said Prime Minister Mark Carney had suspended his campaign because of “connections with China” and cited a major Canadian news outlet, Global News, as its source. But the Global News article did not actually mention any connections to China.

Canada Proud describes itself as a “grass-roots group of Canadians” concerned about the country’s direction. The page is owned by Mobilize Media Group, a Toronto public affairs firm.

The company has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting Canadian voters

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 40 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Going to be real interesting to see where that money is coming from. My bet is some combination of the worst of the US political "thinktanks" like the federalist society, Russian assets, and mega corporations like Amazon.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

from recent reports there's a bunch of Canadian billionaires backing the effort, hoping for DOGE style purge of governmenr

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

Ah, so homegrown scum. I kind of lump them under the mega corporation header though as the goal for them is to eliminate regulations and oversight so they can pillage to their hearts content. Really trying to speed run that late stage capitalism dystopia.