Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Jan 25, 2025:
If you share my deep concern that a fascist like Elon Musk could use the X algorithm to interfere with the upcoming Canadian election please write to Elections canada and demand a full investigation into X’s interference in Canada.
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Nikkig @nikkig123.bsky.social:
I have thrown email hidden; JavaScript is required an email concerning Musk interference in our Canadian election via his propaganda machine on “X”. I did add the liable for election lies, disinformation, misinformation network FoxNews in there as well. Thank you Charlie
NDP MP Angus calls for investigation into Elon Musk over potential election interference, MP says Musk has the power to ‘easily impact our electoral integrity’ by Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News, Jan 25, 2025
New Democrat MP Charlie Angus is calling on Elections Canada to launch an investigation into Elon Musk and his social media platform X, saying he is concerned about potential interference by the tech billionaire in the next federal election.
In a two-page letter to Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, Angus said Musk has been playing a role in recent elections in a variety of countries, donating millions of dollars to conservative candidates and using X, formerly known as Twitter, to amplify the political messages of candidates he favours.
“He has formed alliances with right-wing populist leaders
And hate-filled Nazis, eg Germany’s hideous AfD Nazi party, amplified extremist influencers and spread hate disinformation towards marginal groups,” Angus wrote.
Concerns over ‘X’s huge power’
Now, Angus wrote, Musk is getting involved in Canadian politics, “praising the current leader of the Conservative Party, aligning himself with far-right influencers and their platforms and criticizing the current prime minister.”
Musk, the world’s richest man, was born in South Africa but lives in the United States and holds citizenship there. OMG! He’s a lying dirty immigrant! Deport him! Oh, right, he’s rich, and white, and male, won’t happen because rich white males are above the law. His mother is from Saskatchewan, and Musk moved to Canada in 1989, attending Queen’s University for two years. CBC News was unable to confirm whether Musk currently holds Canadian citizenship.
Angus wrote that X “serves as a pathway for Russian misinformation and the rise of hate and threats in Canada. Given X’s huge power, any overt efforts by Mr. Musk to support a particular party or leader could easily impact our electoral integrity.”I think it’s already too late. The 2019 racist hate-filled yellow vesters, manhandled by the oil and gas industry, morphed into the 2022 white supremacist misogynistic Fucker Truckers, manhandled by Putin and Trump, creating a deep raging brainless rot in Canadians I’ve never seen before.
Questions from CBC News to Musk and to two of his companies have not yet received a response.
Angus called on Perrault to launch an investigation into X “and possible avenues for manipulation by Mr. Musk or right-wing influencers,” which he did not name, as well as to insist during the upcoming federal election campaign that Musk commit to transparency of the algorithms used on his platform to allow election observers to see whether X is interfering by promoting or suppressing political posts.What? Musk is a frac’er, massive polluter, notably of our night skies, proudly showed the world he’s a Nazi and has proven he’s untrustworthy. I’ll never trust anything he says or does, or any of his products. Commitments from humans like Musk mean nothing. Money, stupidity and hate rules humanity in WW3’s Nazi propaganda by the evil Musk. There are many alternatives to X, such as bluesky. Ban X in Canada. Now.
Angus’s letter comes two weeks after Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram would move away from fact-checking in the U.S. and would ease content restrictions worldwide — something experts say could make it easier for online misinformation and foreign interference to influence the next Canadian election.
In an interview, Angus said what he sees on other platforms is concerning but his letter targeted X because he believes Musk’s apparent willingness to use X’s algorithm to intervene in other countries’ affairs makes him the biggest threat.
2022 cartoon by Michael de Adder showing Musk bought Twitter (he reportedly got financing from Putin) to sleaze Trump back into power. Precisely something a Nazi would do.
Donald Trump is building the wealthiest cabinet in American history with 13 billionaires set to be part of his administration. They include Elon Musk, his vocal backer and the CEO of X. Historian Quinn Slobodian says what’s unusual is having people from Silicon Valley openly involved in government, and he explains the potential dangers that may come as a result.
Angus said if Parliament weren’t prorogued, he would call for committee hearings into the issue.
Matthew McKenna, spokesman for Elections Canada, said it is up to the Commissioner of Canada Elections office to conduct investigations and enforce the Canada Elections Act, rather than Elections Canada.
However, he said Elections Canada does take questions about foreign interference seriously.
“We understand that in the current context, people might have questions about what may or may not constitute foreign interference,” McKenna wrote in an emailed response. “We should note that other than a few specific exceptions, under the Canada Elections Act, all individuals, Canadian or non-Canadian, are free to express their views on any topic.”Not true. Hate expression is still a crime, notably hate spewed by Nazis.
Angus said he sent the letter to Elections Canada because he decided it was the more suitable office.
The letter to Elections Canada is both “appropriate” and “well timed,” said Aengus Bridgman, director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory in Montreal.
“There is this issue with the primary way that political elites and politicians continue to use X as the main platform and that is controlled and distorted by one individual who is not necessarily acting with Canada’s best interests at heart,” Bridgman said in an interview. Musk is another Putin pawn, like Trump. Putin hates democracy and his orange agent is fast destroying the USA, handing over the spoils to Putin. I expect Trump to hand Ukraine over to Putin too, much to my disgust; I think he’s bullying to buy Greenland and Panama Canal to hand over to Putin too. Harper hates Canada and hates democracy too, and I expect is eager for his puppet Poilievre to win a massive majority, aided by Nazi Musk’s hate and lie farming on X, and then, give chewed up Canada to the USA, which is being eaten by Putin via Trump. Messy and evil, as Nazis tend to be.
“I think this is something that every Canadian should be worried about going into the next election.”I’ve been worried and terrified since the Fucker Trucker invasions, and the physical assaults I endured in public by Fucker Trucker followers trying to rip my health protecting N95 masks off my face show me how problematic the Putin/Trump influence is.
Bridgman said Musk has described X as a platform for free speech, but in reality his control of X is considerable.
“He does have enormous influence over what Canadians are seeing on that platform and that’s concerning. Any additional transparency and communication about that is very valuable and will help inform the way Canadians treat that platform in the next election.”Zuckerberg and his meta/facebook/instagram are just as evil, anti democratic and controlling.
Bridgman said one example of Musk using X to try to influence a political outcome is the current German election. Musk has posted his support for the far-right AfD party.Oh cowardly CBC! AfD is a Nazi party FFS. It’s far beyond a far-right party.
“These are posts that get tens of millions of views and there have been alarms raised in the European context,” said Bridgman. “There’s the perception that there’s an outside influence, really a foreign interference, in that election.”
Hateful slurs soared on Twitter after Musk took over, says digital anti-hate watchdog
Minister of Democratic Institutions Ruby Sahota didn’t comment on Angus’s concerns but said protecting Canada’s democracy and its electoral systems is a priority.
“Individuals have the right to free speech within the bounds of the law, and a strong democracy thrives on open dialogue and diverse perspectives,” said Sahota, listing several steps the federal government has taken to detect and deter election interference.
“While maintaining the freedom of debate, protecting Canada’s democracy and elections from threats is an issue we take extremely seriously.”Ya, but are too cowardly to do anything about.
Heil Tesla. Elon Musk. “Too big of a Nazi for Le Pen? Holy crap.” 5:14 horrifying Min.
Nazi salute by Musk affirmed by German officials:
Political Beauty group, translated from German by Google:
“We projected Elon Musk’s Hitler salute onto his Tesla Gigafactory. Now the public prosecutor’s office is investigating – on suspicion of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. They do see a Hitler salute after all!”
And, I can see it in Canada, as of evening Jan 25, 2025
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo:
Ah, so the Germans, specialists in such matters, admit Musk’s gesture was a Nazi symbol, i.e. a Hitler salute. …
Simon @mrsimonali.bsky.social:
Musk has no business in politics in general, especially here in Canada. We’re anti Nazi & anti facism.
diholloway.bsky.social @diholloway.bsky.social:
He will rig your election like ours. Then he will try and make Canada his 51st state. Please Canada don’t let what happened here happen to you.
Mark Nelson @marknelson.bsky.social:
Ban X in Canada. Tax Starlink hookups and Teslas. While you are at it, tax the crap out of Amazon earnings in Canada, and any other American company that does business here. Don’t forget to ban Trump and his criminal friends from entering our borders. Issue an alert for people travelling to the USA.
Natshootsfilm @natshootsfilm.bsky.social:
I mean, frumpy is a convicted felon so he can’t come to Canada… right!?Ought to be so, but, we all know rich white male criminals usually get to do what they want, including rape women and girls, with authorities enabling them.
Ann @annvotenc.bsky.social:
Well, he did it in the US election, so it is most likely he will do it in Canada. That is why a lot of us moved to Bluesky. We were tired of only seeing GOP propaganda.
BatPool @batpool86.bsky.social:
Yup
Sharon in Tuxedoville @tuxedoville.bsky.social:
Just ban X in Canada. We don’t need it. Problem solved.
Eve Thorne @evethorne.bsky.social:
Starlink too. It should be as suspect as anything Chinese.
formerly Vamos Heavenly Creature@bluedotspecialfl.bsky.social:
We know he meddled in ours. Big time.
Max Ziebell @maxziebell.bsky.social:
He is interfering in the German elections. He made a virtual appearance at the AfD election campaign rally today, and his statements were completely fascist & tone-deaf stating that we shouldn’t have a remembrance culture and should be proud again. We have this culture to exactly prevent people like him!
John “Birthright” Boucher @fightfascismnow.bsky.social:
Canada needs to throttle X and Meta completely.
charmarie65.bsky.social @charmarie65.bsky.social:
We ALL KNOW HE DID that’s what I Call ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY AN IIMMIGRANT suddenly ALL REPUBLICANS WON ….. humm
HelloBonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social:
Very concerned. And even worse in Ontario, Ford signed up for Elon’s software a mere 3 days after the US election where it became evident that it was used to cheat.Ford is another evil fucker, who let the Fucker Truckers abuse many, while he went snowmobiling at his cottage. The Ford Fuck must be voted OUT!
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Doug Ford gave Starlink $100 million dollars. That contract should immediately be terminated.
openangel67.bsky.social @openangel67.bsky.social:
Tax the hell out of Elon Musk and take away his Canadian citizenship ASAP
I would like to know how Mark Carney can run for leadership when he is not a member of Parliament We don’t need to be another US But I really want to know how this isn’t how our elections work no one runs for Prime Minister
Emmett Macfarlane @emmettmacfarlane.com:
Another reminder that foreign electoral interference is far from limited to China. Russia’s aims are obvious, and now we have to worry about the US and its oligarchs too.
Don Nadon @donnadon.bsky.social:
we may need to update CSIS’s mandate regarding our dealings with America.
Hilary Wollis @hilarywollis.bsky.social:
Don’t forget India.
Team Canada @robin5852.bsky.social:
Don’t forget India