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China, Russia and Iran will ‘very likely’ use AI to target Canada’s 2025 federal election, cyber agency warns
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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The government has already admitted that there's been evidence of tampering for over a decade now by China, though how significant of a swing that has isn't known. I'd like to think it was quite minor, but who really knows.
On the other hand, Russia is pretty famous for its botnet attacks on the US elections for a while now, basically early AI based attacks. Their fingerprints are all over twitter during the last several elections, not to mention the biggest driver of quite a few conspiracy theories.
This isn't a case of "very likely", but rather practically guaranteed. The question is whether the countermeasures will be effective enough or not.
Hysteria.
Vaccine hysteria, Fuck Trudeau protests, carbon tax, immigration hatred, CPC policies at provincial levels all had significant US/oil funding. CPC media support. Whether there are bot farms upvoting twitter posts, and who funds them, has very little impact on views of Canadians compared to the established politician and media amplifications of those messages.
Explicit anti-human disinformation spouted by US sponsored political establishment in Canada, should not be placed on same level as lobbying for peace or expanded trade narratives. The full partisan spectrum against peace is fully controlled by US and Israel lobbies. Baseless smears of unamed, unindicted, conspiracy theories that might spread an anti-warmongering narrative always gets published, and your/our programming, accepts it as confirmation of our programming, but really, it is simply ensuring that all of our politicians narratives comply with US subservience, and our enemies dictated by US, because any critical thinking/facts are just Iran/China/Russian propaganda that makes not wanting destroying Canada further, a foreign agent.
I get that you are trying to warn us about the states, but you are willfully ignoring all the other state and non-state actors who want to influence the election as well.
You are a red herring.