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submitted 1 month ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The far-right media outlet at the centre of a US Department of Justice indictment over an alleged foreign influence campaign involving covert funding from Russia also produced dozens and dozens of videos this year focused on Canada.

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Tenet Media’s YouTube channel, which counted 316,000 subscribers, went offline Thursday afternoon, nearly a day after the indictment was announced.

However, an analysis of Tenet Media YouTube content preserved by PressProgress prior to its takedown has identified at least 51 videos focused on topics relating to Canada, including videos focused on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other hot button right-wing culture war topics.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Damn half a million views...

That's like, pretty fucking shitty performance for how much money they probably spent on them.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Canada is 1/10 the population of the USA.

That's a significant number of alarmingly stupid Canadians.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Assuming each view is a unique visitor, which is highly unlikely, it would only be 1% of our population. This is low penetrative. Now, how many of these visitors were passing on this misinformation to their creditors friends, that's another question.

[-] Nogami@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Trucker convoy” and all of the idiots that bought that stupid political crap hook line and sinker.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

And also probably some chunk of those views are from bots or otherwise not real trying to boost engagement metrics and game the algorithm

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

do Tim Pool next. And take his hat.

[-] lightrush@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Goddamn. This is significant.

[-] Nogami@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Low budget propaganda. Maybe made by those trucker fools or their friends? Hick central.

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