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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How come no one talks about how the CBC has clearly been under attack by armies of pretend people probably funded by foreign governments for like a decade

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Publicly funded independent journalism helps prevent the spread of misinformation. China and Russia's foreign interference is already working, and they finally have enough leverage that they can try to eliminate the CBC.

The echo chamber of social media algorithms is driven disproportionately by early interaction, and with sophisticated content farms dodging spam detection when they pile on their own posts, Russia and China are able to shift dialogue in their direction of choice. It's a shockingly effective strategy, and it's slowly dismantling Western power and influence.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This has been my suspicion for a long time. I feel like this technology started bearing fruit in a big way in like 2018-2019 when things started going fucking weird. I think Brexit was the first major world-changing victory of these psychological warfare campaigns.