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Did #Reddit year-end recaps expose #Russian interference in #Alberta? - StAlbertGazette.com https://www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/did-reddit-year-end-recaps-expose-russian-interference-in-alberta-8223476 “When Reddit’s year end recaps were released — which give statistics on activity for individual subreddits such as top posts and comments — they indicated Russia was the third most common country of origin for users visiting many of these subreddits, causing moderators to rethink what was behind the trolling activity they had contended with a few months before.
“While I suspected bad actors, such as direction from Take Back Alberta via Telegram, I did not suspect they would be from what this recap seems to point to,” Sherwood Park subreddit moderator u/j1ggy wrote in a post.
“It appears that we were actually being brigaded by Russian #TrollFarms.”
“To sow division, trolls look to inflame tensions around highly emotional social issues, Al-Rawi said. In his research, he has observed Russian trolls spreading disinformation in Canada around #2SLGBTQ+ issues, #immigration, #pandemic politics and the #convoy protests, Islam, and Indigenous issues.”
“Canadian Security Intelligence Service (#CSIS) officials have previously identified Alberta as a “very attractive” target for foreign interference due to its geostrategic importance, energy resources, and large diaspora communities, Postmedia has reported.”
“The prominent anti-LGBTQ+ narratives used in these propaganda and #disinformation campaigns will be familiar to most Canadians: framing LGBTQ+ people as a threat to child safety, and sex education promoting unnatural sexuality and gender expressions; opposition to "gender ideology" that permeates the west and threatens the future of the human race and civilization; #gender and #LGBTQ+ rights as a threat to traditional family structures or even the "natural order" as ordained by God.”
“Rhetoric around transgender people and the 2SLGBTQI+ community has become the current obsession of far-right and antidemocratic movements in Canada, according to Balgord, but the focus of hate-motivated movements tends to follow whatever is in the news.”
"The goal of the antidemocratic movements in Canada is to take political power..to use it to persecute their perceived enemies,
"They're trying to take over school boards. Get into municipal politics. They're looking for any position of power by which they can push their ideology and in this case, disrupting school boards or even sending death threats to education officials because they don't want anything being taught in schools that says it is OK to be queer."
@auscandoc Their mantra: Burn, trans, burn!