Key takeaways

• A network of inauthentic YouTube accounts is targeting Albertan audiences, exploiting genuinely-held grievances and repurposing them to advance narratives that normalize the prospect of secession and U.S. annexation.

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Researchers call it "slopaganda," an explosion of AI-generated disinformation, fuelling the discussion of Alberta separating to join the U.S.

Around 20 accounts are attached and have been spreading this misinformation for over a year, accum…

After a new report put a spotlight on popular YouTube videos with unclear origin promoting Alberta separatism, an independence leader said he's unconcerned about foreign interference influencing a possible upcoming separation referendum.

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Early this year, Canadian researchers who track online influence campaigns and foreign propaganda happened upon something peculiar. Using artificial intelligence to catalogue the activity of Russian websites and social-media accounts known …