The Government of Canada held its third briefing to media regarding the actions that it is taking to protect the 45th General Election from foreign interference.
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Image caption 1: WeChat articles from the Youli-Youmian account that targeted LPC Leader Mark Carney. Social media engagement for these articles was high, even exceeding the engagement level on state-controlled media outlets like the People’s Daily, which averages about 30,000 interactions per post / Image caption 2: Bot-like WeChat news accounts that appear dedicated to amplifying content from the Youli-Youmian account. These accounts do not post original content, and often re-post Youli-Youmian content in a sequence, and only minutes apart. Some of the bot-like accounts continue to re-post Youli-Youmian content days after it was originally posted, likely to improve discoverability of the article, and boosting Youli-Youmian’s presence in user feeds.