CBC as Canada’s federally appointed fact-checker? That sounds less like journalism and more like turning the state broadcaster into an information gatekeeper for the governing party.
“Disinformation”
Is the government using grieving families to push pro-migration propaganda?
How would you respond if a family member had been seriously injured or murdered in an unprovoked knife attack? Fortunately, most of us will never know the answer to that question. But we could hazard a guess that it might be a combination of shock, grief and rage – all at once, perhaps, and all to an unimaginable degree.
China uses ChatGPT to sow unrest in America
China has been using ChatGPT to sow unrest in the US, generating fake images and cartoons in an effort to turn Americans against AI.
OpenAI said a “cluster” of accounts based in China had been manipulating its ChatGPT bot to run “covert influence operations” targeting US voters with anti-AI messaging.
It said the fraudulent accounts, which were based in China but masked their true location, created memes and pictures that aimed to “amplify divisions or exacerbate public distrust”, with the AI-generated images shared on X.
A Mysterious Children’s Search Engine Is Misleading Kids
Since 2016, governments, media, and tech companies have warned about online disinformation targeting adults. Far less attention has been paid to the information tools increasingly shaping children, even as such “kid-safe” platforms become more embedded into the internet’s trust infrastructure.
One significant child-focused platform, Kiddle, delivers a striking pattern of geopolitical and ideological framing that softens authoritarian regimes and extremist movements while presenting itself as a trusted educational resource. Foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas and Hezbollah, are whitewashed. Russia’s war on Ukraine is downgraded to a “military operation,” mirroring Kremlin language, while Joseph Stalin’s role in Russian history is reduced to his success in building a “strong, modern nation.”
How Iran spreads fake news with AI using ‘British’ social media accounts
The propaganda accounts have moved from promoting Scottish nationalism to misleading war content, including destroyed US bases and Netanyahu’s ‘death’
A network of Iranian-controlled accounts on social media claiming to be British or Irish has been posting pro-Tehran propaganda and fake AI-generated news, experts have found.
A total of 34 accounts on X, Instagram and Bluesky with fake personas purporting to be based in London, Glasgow and Dublin are actually controlled from Iran.
The network is part of a wider disinformation campaign being waged by Tehran across social networks using AI tools to spread fake news. It was uncovered by researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensic Hub.
X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts
Elon Musk’s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the “massive” scale of attempts to manipulate the platform.
The social media company told MPs it was continually fighting state-backed attempts to hijack the agenda on its network, with Russia the most prolific state actor, followed by Iran and China.
As part of the battle against such content, X suspended 800m accounts in 2024 for breaching its rules on platform manipulation and spam, although it did not reveal which of those suspensions related to foreign interference. X has approximately 300 million monthly users worldwide.
London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia For Governments and Billionaires
Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception.
For this reason, new AI tools have begun to carry the site’s contents far and wide. Chatbots and AI-generated search summaries – which are rapidly transforming the way people get their information – both use Wikipedia as a key source.
Now, we can reveal Wikipedia has been subject to shady, paid-for edits ordered by partners at an elite London PR firm with links to Downing Street. And the clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
Good summary below
The “Wikilaundering” scandal is finally blowing wide open and it’s worse than we thought
A massive investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core
You do not get information. You get propaganda…. articles… pic.twitter.com/CyTfc8VfjR
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) March 4, 2026
Researchers who studied who’s spreading the most conspiracy theories in Canada found to be spreading misinformation
Researchers studied who’s spreading the most conspiracy theories in Canada. Here’s what they found
Canadians are becoming more exposed to conspiracy theory content in their social media feeds, but only a certain number of accounts are responsible for promoting the vast majority of it, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) analyzed more than 14 million posts between 2023 and 2025 across popular online platforms — TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Bluesky — and found there are only about 100 very active Canadian users who account for nearly 70 per cent of conspiratorial content.
… The claims that Canadians reported they were most aware of on social media were ones about public health threats (such as COVID-19) being exaggerated to expand government control (63 per cent), schools are indoctrinating kids with radical gender ideology (54 per cent) and the media-elite collusion (47 per cent).
A 750K fine for saying there are only 2 genders that was levied in a case brought by the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) on behalf of the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association (CTA) against former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld says transgender indoctrination in schools is no conspiracy theory.
Why would the Media Ecosystem Observatory publish such a sketchy study?
NewsGuard Sent Us the Latest List of Our ‘Misinformation’. Here’s How We Replied
NewsGuard has been in touch again. The ‘fact checker’ founded by a Democrat activist and funded in part by Publicis Groupe, which represents leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies including Pfizer, has sent the Daily Sceptic its annual interrogation over where its thought police have deemed that we have deviated from the approved narrative. From migrants eating wildlife to vaccines causing blood clots (though notably no climate objections this time – did we win that argument?), NewsGuard asks us to issue corrections to ensure the purity of the Official Narrative is left untarnished, even in the humble pages of the Daily Sceptic. Since NewsGuard’s completely impartial, not-at-all biased ratings are used by advertisers to blacklist companies and Microsoft to train its search engine, we thought we’d better reply, though with little hope of an improved rating given that when Toby bent over backwards to address NewsGuard’s points the first time we were contacted we saw our rating halved, as reported in the New York Post. Here’s what NewsGuard asks us this time, and our responses.
Canada’s prime minister tells Canadians to get their news from state-controlled media
In Canada, free speech is no longer a thing.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney utilized an August 5 press conference in British Columbia to dismiss concerns over Liberal legislation (Bill C-18) that would forbid news outlets from sharing news on social media, particularly during emergencies. The Canadian Commie globalist didn’t just refuse to rescind the aforementioned Bill C-18. No siree, he also urged his fellow Canucks to rely on government-funded CBC News for fair and unbiased information.
HANNAFORD: Ottawa’s eternal quest to shape what Canadians say and think
Is it an exaggeration to say Canada’s Liberal government uses newspaper subsidies and internet regulation to control what Canadians read and say?
Host Nigel Hannaford puts the question to former CRTC commissioner and one-time Calgary Herald publisher Peter Menzies: “I don’t think you’re overstating the situation at all,” says Menzies.
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Steep rise in hate toward South Asians in Canada documented through social media posts says left wing extremist Soros funded anti-free speech org
Canada has seen a steep rise in hate toward South Asians on social media in recent years, with a large spike occurring during the recent federal election — especially aimed at former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, according to a new report.
The report, titled “The Rise of Anti-South Asian Hate in Canada” and published by the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, used the social media monitoring tool Brandwatch to analyze posts that mention Canadian cities and regions and South Asians on X.
Between May and December 2023, they found 1,163 posts containing explicitly hateful keywords toward South Asians. During the same period in 2024, that number rose to 16,884 — an increase of more than 1,350 per cent.
Note that the Soros funded so called “Institute For Strategic Dialogue” is notorious for its dubious reports and is really just a front designed to criminalize dissent.
Please keep an eye on this organization. Follow them. They are working to censor @jordanbpeterson @BjornLomborg @AlexEpstein and me. They are spreading lies about us to news media and social media platforms around the world. They are creepy and dangerous. https://t.co/a3UVSyFpeu
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 12, 2023
Carney’s media are a font of lies.
Statscan denies political motive behind misinformation study … just a right wing conspiracy theory
Statistics Canada is rejecting claims that a recent study on internet misinformation was politically motivated or intended to support the government’s push to regulate online content.
“The report was not requested by any public authority,” said agency spokesperson Annick Irakoze, who explained the findings were based on public questionnaires.
John Ivison: The election was a hotbed for disinformation. The next one will be worse
Information manipulation poses the single biggest threat to Canadian democracy, concluded commissioner Marie Josée Hogue, in her final report on foreign interference in federal elections, earlier this year.
It probably came as no surprise to the commissioner that emerging technologies amplified the falsehoods during the recent general election.
Generative AI has emerged as a new player in the disinformation game, enabling malign actors to create huge quantities of misleading content.
NY Times, Back on Censorship Kick, Frets Over Trump’s ‘Misinformation Research’ Cuts
New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration is against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation.”
But who determines what counts as “misinformation”?