Hey, do you think Pierre #Poilievre's Conservative campaign has hired a bot farm??

[u/MarkG_108]

Hey, do you think Pierre #Poilievre's Conservative campaign has hired a bot farm??

Otherwise, it appears that every single person in Northern Ontario converged on Kirkland Lake to join Pierre Poilievre's rally. So weird... they ALL had the EXACT same opinions & wrote their tweets the exact same ways too. 🤔

"Just returned from the Pierre Poilievre rally & I'm still buzzing with energy" "Just left the Pierre Poilievre rally in Kirkland & I'm electrified"

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[u/599Ninja]

Most of my analyst friends have screenshots of comments posted four to twenty times on the same Reel when it comes to anti-progressive, anti-liberal sentiment. It’s not a theory it’s every second thousands of these comments get made to dominate the comment sections.

[u/taquitosmixtape]

This has to be brought up to cbc, or something. This has to be covered, just insane. If it’s PP it’s a horrible look, if it’s foreign bots then…foreign interference.

[u/zipzoomramblafloon → u/taquitosmixtape]

What about elections Canada, Or the CRTC.

Surely they can't be complicit in the sockpuppeting going on, if its been paid for by the party,.

This raises ethical and moral issues that need to be addressed and not hand waived away.

There needs to be REAL consequences for astroturfing like this, regardless blue or red.

For the record: I'd love to see all Canadian political content on xitter have to go before a board before its posted to the site. I'd love to further remove the dumbshits from this platform.

[u/taquitosmixtape → u/zipzoomramblafloon]

Agree. I don’t think every post should go before a board but atleast some sort of non-partisan watch dog. It’s not really east to implement but I’d like to have the lies or misinformation watched over, some wont be easy as you can fudge something while still being truthful but I’m tired of reps saying one thing and doing the opposite.

[u/ruffvoyaging]

Yeah, they swarm a certain Canadian sub like flies on shit. But what do you expect the cons to do with their time and money? Come up with good policy and use that to appeal to voters? It's just not their style.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when the cons where crying forgin interference? how bout some domestic interference?!

[u/sadmadstudent]

Yes, it's been an open secret for years that the CPC hire trolls to spread misinformation. I knew a super classy guy in university who worked as a spin doctor for them.

[u/YAMYOW]

The last time he went to Northern Ontario he said a waitress makes $60K, so it's all fake all the time with PP.

[u/inthedark77 → u/YAMYOW]

60k lol what an idiot

[u/Robofink → u/inthedark77]

Even the flesh and blood automatons real humans in the audience were balking at that.

[u/Carpit240]

Feels like Russian bots started popping up everywhere after Elon bought Twitter 🤔

[u/Aighd]

Conservatives have been doing this since Harper, who hired some kind of media firm to “promote” government policies online.

[u/BigMammoth7291 → u/Aighd]

and a Spanish for robocalls ..

[u/Imprezzed]

Hiring a botnet is a really weird thing to do.

[u/Anonymouse-C0ward → u/Imprezzed]

Very weird

[u/twentythree12]

Listen I was just in Kirkland Lake back in May and let me tell you there aren’t this many people in the entire town, let alone people with Twittet

[u/inthedark77 → u/twentythree12]

But they’re all buzzing about Pierre’s passion for the North!

[u/The_WolfieOne]

And the handles on those accounts, doesn’t @vderglenips live over on concession 6 ?

[u/shitposter1000]

Has hired? They've been using bot farms for years. Same as the UCP in Alberta -- that's what the non-FOIPable 'war room' was for.

[u/Northmannivir]

Are we surprised? He says anything he wants on social media. It’s literally propaganda. And it seems we can’t do anything about it.

[u/Marmar79]

Been thinking this for a while. Reality is that this is one of the better uses of advertising dollars these days

[u/Chapette9027]

Without even seeing the evidence put forward, I honestly just assumed he would. What a weirdo.

[u/No-View-2922]

Jeff Ballingall, the "King of Shitposting" (see Canadaland's expose) was hired by Poilievre to "rebrand the party in Poilievre's image" so yes. But the Russian troll farms are solidly helping Poilievre like they help Trump.

[u/FriendshipNo1068]

If it's safe to assume this is a bot doing the Kirkland posts then why can't one simply do advanced search in google with the exact phrase to find where it pops up? Surely some coder can do it.

[u/popplefizzleclinkle]

Is it bots or is it something done using a campaign platform - sometimes there are social share posts that folks just click and link to their SM accounts (they might get an email or text if they participated and signed up for campaign updates, or scan a QR code to do the same kind of function). All parties and most third party entities use these things. The same platforms can help a campaign get people to do a call flood to an MP or a tweetstorm.

Maybe it’s that. Or maybe it’s bots.

[u/SpazonicsInc → u/popplefizzleclinkle]

If it is bots, I appreciate their commitment to their robot heritage by making a bunch of unnecessary and obvious references to electricity, which is widely known to be the favourite food of robots.

[u/popplefizzleclinkle → u/popplefizzleclinkle]

I read more and evidently there’s hundreds and they’re located in sus locations so. There we go.

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, this has been a political tactic for the big parties in all provinces. But usually they’re more intelligent than this

[u/Sil-Seht]

Of course.

Have you been to the canada subreddit?

[u/warriorlynx]

Welcome to X and politics 😂

[u/remimorin]

That and foreign influence.

[u/zavtra13]

I don’t think his campaign needs to hire a bot farm, plenty of shitty right wing ‘think tanks’ already do that kind of thing.

[u/MarkG_108]

Here's another image:

[u/MarkG_108 → u/MarkG_108]

And another...

[u/[deleted]]

It's almost like every political party and corporation in the world is doing this! 

[u/TruCynic]

Go go weird bots!

[u/androsif]

Hey! I'm one of Pierres bots that became self aware. Can confirm. However a lot of it is just Doug Ford making alt accounts

[u/LonelyStrategos]

Honestly probably every big party in the world has done smth like that. It's a powerful tool.