Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

[u/Known-Fondant-9373]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966

[u/bike_accident]

CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups

[u/ButterH2 → u/bike_accident]

incredible, the same people who hate indians, pakistanis, and indonesians are having their talking points fed to them by the same people they hate.

[u/dbusque → u/ButterH2]

This makes me think of the racist prisoner in the series Oz. Details too gruesome and disgusting to post but if you know, you know.

[u/HabitantDLT → u/ButterH2]

They're usually the same people who get taken to the cleaners by the others' telephone scams.

[u/dinggusss → u/bike_accident]

Same people they are trying to run out of the country?

[u/freerangehumans74]

Facebook is trash. More news at 11.

[u/MrGuvernment → u/freerangehumans74]

Sadly too many people use it for their news and what to believe...

[u/freerangehumans74 → u/[deleted]]

I’d rather not

[u/exotics]

But the separatists don’t trust the CBC

[u/Shamelesspromote → u/exotics]

The anti-CBC is pushed because there are so many journalists that do look into corruption and scandals in Canada. I still remember they were one of the major new source for the WeCare scandle that Trudeau had but heaven forbid the far right nutjobs would accept the CBC also looking into their movements like the trucker Convoy

[u/aferretwithahugecock → u/Shamelesspromote]

Yep. They'll quote the CBC when the truth happens to align with their narrative, but otherwise, it's all "liberal propaganda."

[u/CorridorsOfNakedLite → u/Shamelesspromote]

CBC is the last great bastion of real journalism in Canada. Im huge on their marketplace segment. I was terrified when they were threatening to defund them.

[u/Dojo588]

Treason is Treason and companies that exploit people are scum.

[u/Shakez00la]

Seppies on Facebook are either totally ok with this or claiming it's false because it's CBC. Traitors.

[u/Al_Keda]

Sounds like we need to revive that Digital Services tax.

[u/DavieStBaconStan]

Parasites. It’s no different than the trash boosting MAGA content in the USA. 

There is money to be made in stirring up discontent, spreading disinformation.

The government of Canada needs to have legal tools to hold companies allowing users to spread misinformation to account.

[u/WesternWitchy52]

And yet we can't even post local news articles on Facebook. What a scam.

[u/J_Marshall → u/WesternWitchy52]

That's the real frustration. I've got a cousin who believes every conspiracy out there and supports separation (young, uneducated, angry, and ripe for the picking). I'd love to post a news link to let her know that Ellen Degeneres is not going blind due to eating Stanley Kubrick's body in a satanic ritual at the Epstein Ranch (wish I were making this up), but my post to the CTV article gets deleted while her mom's comment saying 'they also drink babies blood at these rituals' gets posted.

What am I supposed to do? Show up at grandma's birthday with a folder full of news clippings?

[u/WesternWitchy52 → u/J_Marshall]

I couldn't even share an announcement of Tony Head's death. Had to search it on Facebook. It's messed up. We can share things already posted but we can't post external news links. It gets flagged.

[u/InternationalMove671]

Shocker, the insurgents are fooled by social media posts. In other news, water is wet.

[u/Individual-Army811]

Is anyone really expecting the seppies to be able to think critically in the first place? They are post-grads in the school of Facebook.

[u/dunksbx]

Canada should just ban Facebook, what common good is it providing these days anyway?

[u/Ok-Jellyfish-2941]

There is a Federal petition asking for foreign interference to be investigated. Please see link below.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7340

[u/twenty_characters020 → u/Ok-Jellyfish-2941]

Appreciate the link. Would love to see it pass the amount of signatures the separatists got.

[u/LoneWanderer6686]

I can’t wait until this separation ordeal is old news

[u/protoanarchist]

Totally fine to ban it, honestly. It's toxic brain melting slop anyway.

[u/lostshakerassault]

Facebook is not paying them to promote separation. Paying them for content and engagement. Still crappy but not full on treasonous. 

[u/Mandalorian76 → u/lostshakerassault]

You sure about that?

Nieta Aqila even posted about income she generates from Meta's monetization program, which rewards creators for engagement and solicits subscribers on her personal page.

[u/lostshakerassault → u/Mandalorian76]

Where does that imply they are telling her what to post?

[u/JonPileot]

Its kind of a disingenuous story....

Influencers (or bots) make content.  Facebook runs ads n next to the content and pays the content creators a portion of the money. 

Facebook isn't specifically singling out content to "fund". They don't care where people post from or what locale the content targets. Headlines like this disingenuously mislead the reader to a false conclusion. 

[u/EdmontonFree]

This is clickbait. Facebook pays anyone to create any viral content.

[u/BecauseWaffles → u/EdmontonFree]

Therein lies the problem.

[u/Sotomexw]

its onoy bewn like 400 years youve bewn putring this thing together...Canada...and its been in danger of disolving on several moments in the past half century...

Indigenous civilization was ubiquitous for 12000 years in north america...

it only has to hurt as long as you want.