Foreign actors producing more false content about Alberta separatism; report

A report says foreign actors are increasingly generating articles, podcasts and social media posts riddled with disinformation about Alberta’s separatist movement.

The report from a team of researchers, published by the Canadian monitoring platform DisinfoWatch, says the campaigns are coming out of Russia and the United States.

It says social media influencers, some created by artificial intelligence, are generating the disinformation in the United States.

In Russia, false content is being posted on a series of Kremlin-aligned websites called Pravda News Network.