(Ottawa Comprehensive) The Canadian government claims to discover a false information propaganda operation related to China. The Internet Water Army uses a series of online posts and forged videos to try to slander and discredit Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and Congress.
The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Monday (October 23) saying that the publicity operation of this "spamouflage" occurred in August and September.The words "spam camouflage" are combined with the words "spam" and "camouflage", which refers to publishing a lot of false information and robotic posts through new and hijacked social media accounts.
These fake information and posts have accused dozens of Canadian members of Congress and Prime Minister Trudeau's behaviors involving illegal and moral behaviors.One of the posts also claimed that the Hawaii wildfire was caused by the secret "weather weapon" of the US military, and there were various videos of "DeepFake".
The Facebook and X account comment area of Canadian members appeared thousands of such robots written in English and French during the incident.The Canadian government subsequently cooperated with relevant social media platforms to delete these posts.
The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: "This information war may hinder the work of parliamentarians, make it difficult for them to perform their duties, and may cause Canadian members and diaspora community to be unable to speak freely about their concerns."
Canada said that the information promotional war was not only intended to discredit Canadian lawmakers, but also aims to "suppress criticism of the Chinese government."
The Chinese Embassy in Canada issued a statement on Monday to deny Canada's allegations, and said that Canada framed the Chinese side to spread the false information against Canadian politicians when they could not get direct and substantial evidence.Slandering discredit, China expressed strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition.
The embassy emphasized that China has never interfered with other domestic politics. In contrast, the "five -eye alliance" countries such as Canada and other countries have long -term compilation of lies and false information such as Xinjiang -related, Tibetan, and Hong Kong -related Hong Kong.China urges the Canada to abandon the Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice, stop using China to talk about things, spread false information to mislead the public, and do more things that are conducive to the improvement and development of the relationship between the two countries.
At the end of 2018, the Canadian police detained the executive of Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant, Meng Wanzhou, and Sino -Canada relations fell into the freezing point.Shortly after that, Beijing arrested two Canadians with spy.The above three have been released.
Canada also accused China of establishing an illegal police station in Canada to harass Chinese diaspora, and China resolutely denied accusations.In September this year, the Trudeau administration announced that Public investigation.
