Nice to see so many accounts based out of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates amplifying calls for tighter restrictions on access to Canadian press galleries.
lol, they’re getting one retweet every ~2 mins or so from accounts with zero followers
They’re now up to 77 retweets.
By my count, only three of them are from real people.
Huh, it appears two long lost twins from Egypt have reunited thanks to their mutual interest in @CANADALAND and nerdy debates over access to Canadian press galleries.
They’re up to 100 retweets!
Alberta’s press gallery seems to be a topic near and dear to the hearts of people named “Mariam” or “Jasmine.”
The mystery deepens:
A completely separate tweet from @CANADALAND has suddenly been "liked" hundreds of times by Russian bots.
One of the bot accounts promotes a Russian-language website that offers a service called "cheat Twitter."
"Boosting Twitter Favorites is a great way to draw attention to your posts," the site says. "Your tweet will look much more solid with a few hundred or thousands of likes."
(To be clear, I have no idea what the meaning of all of this is. It's just... Weird.)
lol
I’m not sure CAJ needed to delete its tweet, but always good to see orgs being responsive:
There appear to be a series of paid ads on X dot com presented as news articles making false statements about NDP leader @theJagmeetSingh.
These look like the same types of scammy ads that were targeting CTV’s Mary Berg and other TV personalities.
To further underline the integrity problems with this platform, these fake news ads display a @euronews URL but the link redirects to a website called starzbet77 dot com.
(Euronews is one of Europe’s biggest TV news channels)
h/t @OpnBrdrsAdvct who found another example of a similar fake news ad targeting Singh with false claims that displays as a link to the National Post.
(It redirects to a dead website called reverblink dot com)
Hundreds of accounts claiming to be located in the United States, France, England, Russia, etc. say they are “still buzzing” after attending Pierre Poilievre’s recent rally in Kirkland Lake, Ontario:
h/t @The280Times who documented hundreds of weird tweets allegedly from around the world with identical text claiming to have attended a rally in a remote mining town in northern Ontario
A lot of these accounts are also tweeting about climate change and pleading with people to reduce their carbon footprint, which makes me wonder why they would fly across the world to attend one of Poilievre’s anti-carbon tax rallies?
The Mexican Embassy contacted me late last night to say they are pulling out of a festival featuring Maxime Bernier, Randy Hillier, Tom Quiggin and True North’s Andrew Lawton.
Multiple organizations listed as corporate sponsors say they never sponsored the event.
The Parliamentary Protective Service just arrested the convoy guy with the tinfoil hat, Claude Comtois, after he (allegedly) assaulted local activist Deana Sherif:
Video from Sherif’s livestream appears to show a different convoy guy repeatedly bumping her with his backpack and aggressively confronting her.
The stream ends with some kind of altercation and the feed going dead. Tinfoil hat guy apparently joined the melee that followed:
Sherif was also arrested after yelling at a guy dressed in yellow pajamas, top hat, steampunk goggles and a Canadian flag cape who was giving a witness statement and refusing to promptly leave Parliament Hill.
I’m told Sherif was released with a trespassing ticket.
PDF metadata of this poll found on another website indicates it was created four days ago on Canva by Alissa Golob, Executive Director of the anti-abortion group Right Now.
Witness tells Buffalo’s @WGRZ he saw someone barrel down Main St. in a Bentley at 100+ miles/hr swerve to avoid a car, hit a fence, go airborne 30 ft, then burst into flames.
According to the witness, the Bentley originated on the US-side, not Canada.
If I got this right, it sounds like someone was speeding in Buffalo, lost control of their Bentley, randomly flew into an unrelated border crossing booth and burst into flames.
This appears to be what the witness is describing. He said the Bentley was barrelling down Main St. at high speeds, then hit a fence (red line) and flew 30 ft in the air.
Photos showed flames / debris next to the US Customs building on the other side of the fence.