China, Russia and Iran will ‘very likely’ use AI to target Canada’s 2025 federal election, cyber agency warns
2025 federal election ‘very likely’ to be target of AI meddling by China, Russia and Iran, cyber agency warns
Every democratic election is targeted. Some more than others.
Election interference, once a pretext for war, is SOP now.
And USA. Come on.
And Musk-rat.
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.
How can I help fight this crap?
Defend CBC to your family and friends and coworkers if you can. We're probably not really the target audience for misinformation, but they might be,. Their votes count and they can spread that misinformation too
Use an adblocker and avoid social media. Use only official sources of information (i.e. party's official website, elections canada, etc.).
Avoid news that's either American owned, heavily bias (left or right), or seems influenced to post clickbait.
Contact elections Canada about placing safeguards!
That’s a good idea, thank you
Inner Charlie Angus intensifues
And here in /c/Canada is just where we'll see it.
I've heard reports it's already ramping up on the Meta platforms.
You should encourage people off of the book of faces. One replacement is Mastodon on the mstdn.ca server.
I know it is less friendly than the Zuk’s system but it is not hosted by an US server.
Well yeah, duh.
They left out the Trelon administration.
Nah, "trelon" sounds way too cool for them. They don't deserve that. I'd go with E-lump. It sounds more stupid and revolting (to me at least)
[EDIT] WHOA wait, is that a triple portmanteau of Trump/Elon/Felon?
Consternation about election interference from everyone except US and Israel, makes it much cheaper for the latter to buy our election winners. Headline is also equivalent to saying anyone opposed to war is a secret agent of these countries. War can never be a demented evil that costs Canadians in their "force amplification" role, opposition to war can only be pro enemy (that the US/Israel told us should be our enemy).
They aren't the only ones. And all the bot farms from all the countries that do this are getting ready.
Focusing on the US and Israel will leave you blinded to china, russia, Saudia Arabia, and anybody else that wants our country to do worse.
They were already enormously successful with the US last year, so now onto its neighbors.
That was my first thought exactly