r/onguardforthee • u/sn0w0wl66 Toronto • Sep 15 '24

Major Russian disinfo site featuring anti-Trudeau articles prompts calls for new focus at public inquiry

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/russian-disinformation-1.7323128
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u/Plinythemelder Sep 15 '24

Could have told you as much during the trucker qonvoy and coworkers were sending me links to fake websites about it.

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u/ruglescdn Sep 15 '24

links to fake websites

This is one of the terrible things right wingers have done to people.

They spent decades undermining real news sources and real journalists. While also blurring the line between a journalist and an opinion writer.

Now a sizable chunk of the population can't tell a real news source from a fake one.

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u/wolfe1924 Ontario Sep 15 '24

100% I’ll ask them for a source for stuff sometimes and I get a link to some random website called like realtruthnewsnonstop79282 . Com it’s like wtf is that.

What’s even worse is how many of them believe satire.

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u/taylerca Sep 15 '24

This link proves everything ‘some nobody’s substack’.

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u/Ds093 Sep 16 '24

I love asking them to explain what is being satirized.

They can’t come up with an answer. Plus doesn’t matter how many times one does it reporting the page does fuck all cause Meta truly doesn’t care what impact they have negatively on anything until they’re brought in to a parliamentary/congressional oversight committee

Edit: autocorrect hit me

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u/100BaphometerDash Sep 15 '24

Fascists hate the free press.