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Government of Canada representatives from the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force will provide a technical briefing to media, to update on the general election 45.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Is this normal, or are things getting more out of hand than normal?

My wife has been getting those fake CBC ads on Facebook and it's frankly disgusting Meta/FB aren't stepping up and doing something about this. They have shadow profiles that track and collate all your logged out activity, but they can't figure out who's posting the same ads that violate terms? I call BS, they don't want to find them and lose money.

[–] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

The Facebook Cambridge Analytica leak was mostly framed as a privacy thing but people glazed over how all that data was used to target people for politics and that was a decade ago imagine what they can do now.

On the fake ads front like you said they're more than happy to accept the ad revenue regardless where it comes from, the platforms is also setting records for user hours and there's barely any political movements to do anything about it.

If people are going to keep using those platforms they should be using altered apps and blocking as much of that stuff as they can.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Adblocker my dude. If you guys can't quit the platform, at least stop giving them your time and money

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unfortunately she has older family members who won’t use anything else and that’s the only way they share family news.

I thought I had installed ublock for her though.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I had to also install and customize FBP as Ublock wasn't enough on its own.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I had the same issue. I finally told my family if being in contact with me is important to them, they needed to be willing to use another tool.

I posted a message saying it was being deleted and provided alternative contact methods. Bumped it a couple of times and deleted it.

The end result is i found out who really cared about me, and i have fewer toxic people in my life.

[–] Aequitas38472@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Delete Facebook. Seriously

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With it being called a technical briefing, it's probably pretty benign. But...maybe it isn't?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With it being called a technical briefing

If that's what it is, I suspect it will be explaining how Canada isn't vulnerable to voting machines being compromised (because we don't use those), ballot security, vote count scrutiny and similar things that people may be misinformed about.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're already starting to see astroturfing on Reddit, and I'm sure there's more on other platforms I don't use. Facebook must be even more of a cesspool than usual right now.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

Just the other day a video was posted about the 23 and me bankruptcy but the title was was incorrectly set to something about prime minister Carney.

There were literally pages and pages of bot posts.