I’m hoping we have a more critically educated population in Canada. I’m hoping our population understands what is at stake. I’m hoping the majority realizes our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is under attack.
We also have a lack of critical thinkers in Canada.
A section of my wife’s friends (ex friends?) Are Trump supporters.
A branch of her family live and breathe Facebook nonsense without questioning validity.
A coworker sends me conspiracy theory videos, even though he works as a highly skilled engineer. Being smart and critical dissemination of information are different thought processes apparently.
looks at the truck that moved in next door, with dual stacks
Your dream is my dream. Not all Canadians value intellect and awareness, when bravado and assumptions will do. Unfortunately.
Facebook should be fined for election interference.
Elections Canada must investigate them and Twitter.
Shut that cancer down
this is the only way, fuck facebook
A fine for a corporation that wealthy would have to be astronomical, at which point I’m not sure how we’d enforce it.
I’d prefer they just be denied to canadians, but I don’t know if that would go over well either.
A fine for every day the problem persists, at a reasonable 1% of daily revenue, enforced by ban.
Totally! but would facebook pay? I just finished “Carless People” and those guys appear to be only in it for themselves
Facebook is being flooded with deepfake
newsreports about Mark CarneyAt this point, if my own mother posted a Happy Birthday message to me on Facebook, I would want to double check my birth certificate to verify it.
If Facebook accepts money for ads they should be vetted.
We can’t keep saying “well it’s a platform”. There’s a big difference between posting on FB and respecting platform rules, and showing ads that violate law.
There should be no expectation of free speech for paid content like this.
ban it in Canada … for crying out loud. We can’t keep losing democracy thanks to big tech.
I’m pretty sure more people look at these ads than watched TV political ads and I think they had more restrictions that these ever did.
Big tech IS the emerging oligarchy. Look to the south… We need to preserve our education—first and foremost.
Even worse facebook is now mostly populated by mid aged + folks which are more susceptible to fake videos. This is a super targeted, very well organised and possibly with facebook execs fully on board (and making tons of money out of it) campaign. This is a cancer where billionaires make more billions at the cost of fucking up democracy and people’s lives. It should be treated in accordance to its true nature and surgically removed.
Every major Internet site should be. Why do TV ads get vetted by the FCC and Internet ads don’t? A growing portion of the population doesn’t even watch broadcast TV anymore.
Let’s hope an american BBS cannot manipulate Canada.
This is why we need to vote! We can’t wait for the govt to police this cause it will be too late and then they are the govt.
A .I. D-generated
paywalled
I have a paid subscription, but I don’t know if share links are anonymous, so here’s a screencap
Also I don’t get hit with a hard paywall, so I don’t know if you’re just over your monthly limit.
I’m pretty sure this screen cap is equivalent to just clearing your browser cookies, so I think it’s benign to share.
Install Firefox, when the article paywalls you, hit the immersive reader button icon at the end of the URL, it will strip out the paywall nonsense and let you read the article.
Damn, how long is your phone!?
I print my articles out of a receipt printer
on ios at least: screenshot a web page in safari and you can switch from “screen” to “full page”
“CBCNN” 😂
It’s the actual acronym of the CBC News Network channel.
And they do use that logo, ex:
https://thumbnails.cbc.ca/maven_legacy/thumbnails/59/731/AR_20240113_NW_CBC_NEWS_NOW_AIR_SAT_1600_frame_32077.jpg
The liberals were just found distributing pins with stop the steal; like the MP who wanted to ship a Canadian to Hong Kong for execution Carney did not fire them, but rather reassigned them. There are some very heinous acts, I’m surprised they need to make things up.
Heck parliaments been prorogued for months due to a terrible budget that went over the Liberals guardrails ending in Freelands letter, Sean Fraser quit and came back after ruining the countries immigration system, and I wouldnt be surprised if Randy Boissonnault comes back too. People must be really desperate to de-industrialize to fight climate change, as per his book, and Germany’s success with that plan.
Excerpt from Values: The speed at which the adjustment to a net-zero economy occurs is uncertain and could be decisive for financial stability. There have already been a few high-profile examples of jump-to distress pricing because of shifts in environmental policy or performance. The combined market capitalisation of the top four US coal producers has fallen by over 99 per cent since the end of 2010, with multiple bankruptcies. To meet the 1.5°C target, more than 80 per cent of current fossil fuel reserves (including three-quarters of coal, half of gas, one-third of oil) would need to stay in the ground, stranding these assets. The equivalent for less than 2°C is about 60 per cent of fossil fuel assets staying in the ground (where they would no longer be assets). When I mentioned the prospect of stranded assets in a speech in 2015, 22 it was met with howls of outrage from the industry. That was in part because many had refused to perform the basic reconciliation between the objectives society had agreed in Paris (keeping temperature increases below 2°C), the carbon budgets science estimated were necessary to achieve them and the consequences this had for fossil fuel extraction. They couldn’t, or wouldn’t, undertake the basic calculations that a teenager, Greta Thunberg, would easily master and powerfully project. Now recognition is growing, even in the oil and gas industry, that some fossil fuel assets will be stranded – although, as we shall see later in the chapter, pricing in financial markets remains wholly inconsistent with the transition.
i was listening to Rachel Maddow Show on Spotify (i know i know… I am looking for alternative) . and i heard multiple Ad with misinformation pushing from the platform.
can’t really stop them trying since well. they are just platform, anyone can pay for ad there.
Rachel Maddow Show on Spotify
I was able to find their podcast on the free and open-source Anytime Player.
free and open-source Anytime Player. Ya… i know that . i am using that on phone too. but i was listening on pc at work…
