Global Affairs has uncovered yet another Chinese disinformation campaign aimed at helping Trudeau and the Liberal Party.
Chinese interference in Canadian democracy continues to be exposed. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has once again been caught red-handed spreading disinformation against Conservative MP Michael Chong.
Journalist Ryan Tumilty of the National Post broke the story Wednesday, citing Global Affairs:
Conservative MP Michael Chong has once again become a target of what the federal government suspects is a targeted misinformation campaign backed by China.
Global Affairs Canada’s Rapid Response Mechanism, a program the government set up to track misinformation, identified the campaign against Chong happening on the social media app WeChat between May 4 and May 13, during recent federal byelection races.
The byelections did not involve Chong directly, but his Conservative party did compete.
Global Affairs found a network of accounts spreading false or misleading information about Chong.
It found a third of the accounts likely have some link to the Chinese government, while two-thirds of the accounts were anonymous and had not previously promoted news stories about Canadian politics.
The accounts also seemed to be co-ordinated, pushing the information out at roughly the same time, increasing the chance that WeChat users would see it.
Read the full article by Ryan Tumilty of the National Post here.
Michael Chong previously found himself the target of election interference efforts by the Chinese government.
Despite calls from both sides of the political spectrum for a full and transparent inquiry into the extent of CCP interference, Trudeau still refuses to initiate one.
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