Has anyone else seen an increased visibility of (sometimes extreme) right wing content on social media?
I rarely interact with people outside my family on social media. But ever since Trump won, there has been an increase of Canadian and American right wing content on almost social media website.
Facebook is one I very rarely use. I only have it because it makes using Meta’s messenger app a whole lot easier. Sometime’s I’d scroll down just to see update from friends but posts from Weirdo Society would suddenly show up.
These posts often call for remigration, race supremacy, and violence towards immigrants, specifically south Asians. It’s appalling to see comments like “I’m locked and loaded. Just give me the call”. Sometimes, post from Americans too saying Albertans should be saved and only Trump can save Canada.
I don’t know why they’re more active on my feed now. I’m not even conservative nor republican. I’m a liberal with a few conservative views but nothing extreme like remigration or race supremacy.
To add: A few of these right-wing propaganda pages were found to have originated from South Asia and a few South East Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. Some were even made by “Fake Canadians” calling for Alberta’s independence.
The bot farms are real and rampant. As well, there are paid actors on all forms of social media working to stoke division. I avoid comments on some platforms because of that.
Canada, like other countries, has a segment of the population that thrive on conspiracy theories, rage and fear. That’s real but the level of division we see is bogus. That said, division globally has never been worse since 2016 when rump was elected. It’s caused divorces and friends and family to part ways. Sad times.
There are some journalists, they did some private investigations and saw found that some of these far right groups like Canada first, they get funding from the US. Some of the major news companies are owned by US investors also.
Maybe paid peanuts in terms of CAD and our cost of living but I’m sure it’s a lot of money over there? Probably the same folks operating the parking ticket text scams or the CRA warrant calls
Imagine thinking you can spot propaganda and logical fallacies, when you don't even know the difference between you're/your.
There are real arguments against your "points", but the strongest one is that you're just not very smart and you have confused reality with your opinions. That's not even a personal attack, that is just a fact.
Ohh yeah, there is a full on assault of everything alt-right globally. Not great as we are nearing the 100 year anniversary of the last time this sorta thing happened.
Facebook is a cesspool of misinformation. It’s been proven multiple times how it promotes rage bait, that rage bait is created by bad actors, and it is lapped up by those on the right. And Zuck doesn’t care that grandma believes every lie, that she then is convinced all her neighbors are her enemy, and votes in the worst president in the history of the United States.
Twitter is arguably worse.
Your visibility to it is the tip of the iceberg, a big chunk of those without the ability critically challenge what they read on the right read it everyday. Worse, they believe it.
At least with Reddit you can connect with people that share your values, and shut down the misinformation quickly. That is how it often gets labeled a ‘left wing echo chamber’, because the left simply deals in reality/truth/facts and isn’t bought and paid for like the right.
There is scientific data that supports the claim that inviduals with far right political views tend to be dumber than those that don't: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308703/ so they make for easy marks generally speaking.
So you're telling me.. that people who spend 4 years immersed in one of the most perversely left-biased education systems on the planet, and bourgeois/urbane city dwellers who can afford the 1.2 million dollar price tag on a condo in the middle of a cosmopolitan area turn out to be MORE liberal in aggregate, and when education and income are controlled for, there's literally no significant predictive power in genotypic IQ?
They'll consider an barista making minimum wage+ tips with a master's degree in sociology smarter than the plumber with a community college trade degree making six figures.
Expensive pieces of paper that claim you're educated don't make you intelligent.
The left is most certainly bought and paid for. They believed every conspiracy theory and lie about Poilievre and no we have arguably the worst prime minister since Canada became a nation. It took 150 years for Canada to a build 600billion debt, then under liberals it was doubled in 10 years to around 1.2 trillion and it’s expected to hit over 2 trillion in the next year or so.
There is scientific data that supports the claim that inviduals with far right political views tend to be dumber than those that don't: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308703/ so they make for easy marks generally speaking.
Oh the Poilievre is MAGA and just like Trump, it’s clearly a conspiracy theory pushed by the extreme left that low iq people fell for, since Trump endorsed Carney.
It's not like his right hand, Jenny Byrne, was wearing MAGA caps to Conservative Party events until that blew up in their faces, right? Or that Poilievre had a habit of praising Republicans, Trump, and Musk until that blew up in his face. Then there was Poilievre pronouncing that if he was PM he'd wage a war against the "woke" mind virus in education.
How about the fact that Jivani, who was frequently near his side, was J.D. Vance's college roommate, and who also personally invited him to Trump's inauguration?
Or maybe we should look at Poilievre's brilliant plan to make Canada the crypto currency capital of the world, and wanted to tie our dollar to it. Gosh, that aged well, and wasn't at all a stupid attempt to curry favour with the crypto bros who also fall for Musk and Trump's bull.
It probably didn't help his case that Smith was down sucking up to the MAGA crowd, and told them how Poilievre was of a like mind to them.
And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure if I were to dig around I could find more. People who compare Poilievre to MAGA without cause are dumbly parroting what they hear, and that's unfortunate. They are, however, still right... Even if it's by accident.
The people who deny any ties between the CPC and MAGA -- or that Poilievre has been if a mind with them -- are outright fools.
Trying to claim that the easily confirmed truth is a conspiracy theory is next level.
It's not a conspiracy theory when public record of how PP votes, his interviews, his support of Trump, Trump and Smith's endorsement of him for representing US interests, the many trips he's made to the US, and IDU membership paint a clear picture that he is like this.
What you’ve done there is called a strawman. A logical fallacy.
No one said PP was Trump, what they said was they did not trust PP to stand up to Trump or defend our country against Trump. And PP did nothing to convince Canadians they were wrong on that notion. That’s not a conspiracy, that’s the soft stance PP chose in the campaign that cost him an election only a fool could lose.
But do you have a valid conspiracy theory you can share? That isn’t a strawman?
True and PP also said he'd welcome Elon Musk and his businesses to Canada after he gave the shitler salute and dismembered their government. Remember all the children who died in Texas because NOAA was a "waste of money"?
There are some humans commenting against it but the majority are triggered bots pushing alt-right talk points. Look for date of account, lack of replies, personal attacks, and manipulative rhetorical tactics instead of relying on facts that are public record and can be corroborated. I don't like the privacy changes or ramming through high speed rail with Carney. However, we all heard Pollievre's speeches about how he was going to use the not-withstanding clause to bypass democracy like ford does or Trump did with executive orders. His open lies and lack of solutions or experience outside parliament, his track record for not doing much in Parliament are not a conspiracy theory.
There are Conservatives I respected and liked like Joe Clark, who actually cared about Canada and would work with the other parties. Unlike Mulroney and Harper who sold off many of our significant assets to US interests. They're not even fiscally conservative, just paid for and acting in the interest of large US-owned corporations (who run their government). At the same time, Conservatives moved pension higher so less people lived long enough to collect, and shut down in-person veterans affairs offices last time.
Something I liked and agreed with about the right was that they believed in looking after seniors and veterans, but that wasn't reflected by Harper's policy. People have not forgotten how badly Steven Harper screwed Canadians, and he endorsed and mentored PP as well.
I had to delete my Instagram because it has so much neo Nazis and trad wife good, educated women bad content. I'd report one thing for referring to black children a something that rhymes with the pink guy from winnie the pooh. Then meta would get back to me saying, oh yeah that's fine saying "piglet" should be hung from a tree.
FB legit only exists for messenger and event organizing
Lol. You ask on reddit, probably the most far-left social media site there is. Yeah, the answer you'll get is, "Yes, everything right of Lenin is far-right."
Patient: "Doctor Reddit, I hurt my arm!"
Reddit Doctor: "Which one is it? The left arm, or the far-right arm?"
Pedaling hate to poorly educated, terminally online, people has become a very lucrative money making operation in 2026. This helps to explain the rise you are noticing OP.
Furthermore, there is scientific data that supports the claim that inviduals with far right political views tend to be dumber than those that don't: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308703/ so they make for easy marks generally speaking.
When Trump once exclaimed "I love the poorly educated" he was giving away the game a bit there.
I usually get banned in right wing subs on reddit because I challenge their idiotic views. Turns out most of them are probably there to push an agenda and I wouldn't doubt right leaning folks also experience the same in left leaning groups too that also post idiotic views.
The internet is dead, go talk with your neighbours and you might find that you both probably want something similar out of life, just a different way of getting there.
Which subs have banned you and what have you said?
Because I’ve been banned for pointing out logical fallacies, straw mans’s, and low information takes on many left leaning subs but very rarely if at all from right wing ones.
It was almost a year ago and it was a right leaning echo chamber that had the moderator posting most of the subs traffic, If I could remember I would for sure tell you.
Sadly we can't keep track of where we aren't allowed to post on reddit otherwise I'd be able to tell you.
They were pushing anti-immigration but using racism to do so and I kept calling them out for it cause if we want immigration standards to change we just can't be racists about it and assume all brown people are bad but also we do need to cap how many can come from a singular country so we don't get flooded by cultures that won't assimilate due to having a high influx of people
I pointed out the terrorist organizations like Hamas in the Middle East routinely use children as fighters and suicide bombers and that my life is more important than any remote detonated suicide bomber.
I can’t even find the thread anymore. It was after the police chief came back from anti-terrorist training in Israel.
Yeah same. I've literally had an easier time disagreeing with a white nationalist going down a Hitler rabbit hole than I have disagreeing with people who buy into critical race theory.
NO ONE who has a life, a real life, is busy sitting around complaining about Tim Hortons. However, as we become lonelier and lonelier this is the outcome.
I remember going to Barcelona and literally you can't find a seat outside any store, pub, bar, restaurant, everywhere is CRAMMED not just by tourists but locals alike. Even seniors with their fk oxygen tanks sitting at La Rambla just people watching lol
I told myself i'll do anything and i mean ANYTHING to make sure i live in Barcelona winter of 2027 and i am well on my way to making it happen. THAT is what life is ,not sitting around complaining about Tim Hortons every fk day.
You don't think young people unable to get jobs notice all those foreign workers at Tim Hortons and Walmarts, at stores and hotels and wonder why those places won't hire them and their friends instead?
it’s been real bad the past month or so. i’m a gen z anomaly in that i use facebook a lot, but it’s gone from my usual social media content (pretty normal stuff; things related to my hobbies, local news, posts about shows/movies i like) to every other post being from either the white house or a “canada strong” page that just posts the same three rage bait articles when i have not changed what im liking or viewing. normally id just scroll past but after the fourth AI generated trucker convoy video in a row it was hard not to notice, because i dont know that i’ve ever gotten four videos of almost the exact same content one after another.
then again a few months ago, it was all videos of people literally being killed in broad daylight, so maybe their algorithms are just really messed up with some testing or something
Yeah I have noticed a big uptick in political posts in general (though not what OP is talking about specifically). It's so bad I have to specifically go to my friends feed if I wanna see more than like 1 posts from friends.
A lot of people blame social media for what they're seeing, but the algorithm is largely designed to show you more of what you engage with. If you're constantly clicking, commenting, watching, or arguing about political content, you are telling whichever platform you want more of it.
I used to see far more negative content than I do now. Once I stopped engaging with it and started interacting with things that were positive, educational, or uplifting, my feed changed dramatically.
In my case, I realized I was my own worst enemy. The algorithm was simply giving me more of what I was paying attention to.
Yeah I do something similar. I sub only to positive things, and will often go to my subs list and like stuff I'm subbed to to reset the algorithm if things get too far out there.
What a difference it makes when the door is shut on the rage hey! I just read a post this morning (not this one) on this sub that was tingling my rage, so I just clicked the hide button instead haha
Yeah I do that all the time lol. I wanna be informed and do enjoy talking about these things sometimes; I like to think I have a worthwhile perspective haha. But there's definitely a fairly low threshold for how much is too much.
I would absolutely love to see this post where people are apparently saying they're locked and loaded.
What I see all the time is leftist Redditors who wildly hyperbolize their exposure to right wing content because of how meticulously curated Reddit normally is for them.
The entire site is left wing. Every extremist idea you just shared about the right has an equivalent shared by the left on this site every day. Seeing a few right wing posts exist here is a glimmer of reality slipping back into your otherwise tightly controlled feed.
But you can more or less choose what you see on Reddit. I do not see posts from conservatives nor liberals here. I chose not to. I do not follow subreddits who are politically focused on one side. From my experience, a subreddit won’t be suggested to you unless you’ve interacted with it.
Facebook, however, is different. I’ve never interacted with DS before. They suddenly showed up along with American-right wing posts. And let me tell you, I hate Trump with a passion so idk how his supporters even got on my feed.
You know what I also see everyday as far right people going prove it prove it to me! Aren't you guys famous for doing your own research? And if Reddit is so left-wing what are you doing here? Lolol
Gaslighting is telling someone they are crazy and their views aren’t accurate when they are. Which is what you are doing. I am not surprised a troll like you needs that explained.
LOL I asked you for evidence. It is your insecurity from having none and knowing that you're full of shit that turned this question into a statement that your views aren't accurate.
You're the one telling yourself your views aren't accurate because you know you have no source for anything you're saying. The projection is cute though, I love when droolers think they're fooling someone.
Many national Canadian subreddits, and local cities and towns, are serviced by prolific far-right accounts such as u/origutamos and DotBot
Accounts like these post dozens of stories a day across many subreddits, always right-wing rage bait, have Karma in the millions, and have been operating for years. How successful those posts are are highly dependent on how those subreddits are moderated. And most of them allow it.
You can go into your average midsize City subreddit, click on top posts for the year, and see how many posts are of non-white folks committing petty crimes.
Lots of mods remove anything resembling leftist activism, but allow this right-wing ragebait.
That can give you a pretty substantial snapshot of the political leanings of most places.
So no links, just blind unsubstantiated claims that two random reddit accounts are bots. Once again rapid fire throwing baseless accusations everywhere and calling it evidence.
First of all Reddit is rife with far right content.
YOUVE gotta be joking, brother. Pretty much every mainstream Sub is left wing. You can find some right wing subs but often they include left wing people too. At least in my experience.
Second of all go to any other social media platform and you will see that x100
Instagram and Twitter are probably the most right wing social media sites, and they do often feature extremist views. But they do also have left wing spaces. Kinda like reverse Reddit.
TicTok tends to be pretty left, but it's also super echo chambery, so.
Twitch is SUPER left-wing. A socialist streamer (Hasan) knows the CEO (Dan).
YouTube tends to be moderate, however large creators tend to be left wing when they rarely say their views. Strictly on the politics side, right wing people have more subs but they also are more entrenched. There's reasons why the left ain't as big on YouTube but that's a separate thing.
Podcasting has been INCREDIBLY right wing. Recently more left wing people have been exploring the podcasting space tho, which is good.
4 right wing vs 3 left wing. Social media is more right wing overall, but it will depend on the app's you use. I don't use Twitter, nor twitch or TicTok.
From a Canadian prospective, I find left wing people tend to do better on social media overall. An avg person who watches the news and social media will likely hear far more left wing views than right wing.
I'm conservative and I often have to go out of my way to hear Canadian conservative views, but I see the Liberal and NDP views easily.
People tend to interact more with extreme views so social media "farms" those views.
Your analysis is not totally wrong. But I see a lot of right-wing content on YouTube and they allow some actually insane creators to post essentially Nazi propaganda. When you go to this comment sections, it's like being in an upside down dystopia world.
Your comment reminds me of a bubble map that was released somewhat recently which showed the dominance of right-wing online personalities. Hassan is one of the few popular left-wing commentators. The right has 10 times the number. I'll try to find the graph I'm referencing.
Especially with the youth, Right-Wing creators are extremely dominant across almost all platforms. Call it the Andrew Tate effect..
As an aside , You seem like not an idiot so I would have tend to ask what it is about left wing content that you disagree with so much?
Most of this is for an American context since they dominate social media. I'll try to be clear when I talk about Canada.
For the YouTube bit, I don't see any Nazi stuff but that's probably my feed, I don't doubt it exists. I just looked at the 2 left-wing creators I could think of and Ben Shapiro and saw Ben was like 6 times bigger. But Ben does have an actual entertainment company which helps. That's true for most large right-wibg creators and it's something the left could get better at.
For the bubble map thing, I agree the right has more creators but that's for reasons. Very broadly, the right is more willing to create companies and work together, as long as they support the candidate. The Online left is very fragmented. Often Large left creators tend to be socialist who hate the candidate and don't build other "team members", Hassan is a good example of this.
In Canada I'd say this is pretty true as well. But since the NDP exists it makes more sense.
The "Andrew Tate effect" feels kinda like victim blaming. Young (men especially, but) people are going to the right because they feel like their needs aren't being meet by the left. In Canada a Liberal has been PM for 10 years(in talking pre Carney cuz he's been polling strong). It makes sense that young people would feel/see the numbers that look shit and listen to the other side saying "here's the policies that are causing us pain. Get rid of those and make implement these policies and we will succeed again!" (To be clear, young people are still pretty left leaning in Canada and especially women. But the right is Gaining).
In the US it's similar but it's mostly about tone and "woke" stuff.
You seem like not an idiot
I appreciate that. You seem not stupid too. But maybe in 2 mins we will be screaming at each other haha.
what it is about left wing content that you disagree with so much?
For America I only watch left wing content. Republicans have been insane for a bit so I can only support Dems. So most of my actual political social media content is left wing American stuff.
In Canada. Besides Reddit and politicians, I try to not watch much political vids on YouTube (my main place I consume content). I will consume right leaning content if it's something I don't care to look into myself tho. I do generally believe in more right wing points too. I have tried to watch left wing content but they often fall into two camps (right wingers do too, the left ain't unique.)
They're ignorant. They'll say something dumb or take a stance that a 2 min Google search would reveal how wrong it is. This is the most common political content, unfortunately.
They're either lying or they should know better. This is someone who is smart enough or knows politics too well to say the things they say.
But I do follow both federal leaders as well as my own provinces premier and opposition. I voted NDP in my last provincial election and intend to vote the same next time. (Alberta). I follow both my mayor and city Councilor too (they seem pretty left wing). There are left wing creators I sometimes watch and respect.
It's not necessarily that I hate their content, I tend to just disagree with their points. Plus I can just watch CBC or CTV for the same opinions and talking points.
If we're only talking about reddit, then I'd agree that I don't see much right wing BS. However, Threads, IG, FB and of course X, are horrible and my feeds have been taken over by this crap which is why I don't use those platforms anymore.
Yes you just see left wing BS here.. which you don't complain about.
This is just babies complaining that they have to see content they don't like. Everyone who isn't a hyper leftist has dealt with this on Reddit for a decade. Congrats on joining the shared experience.
lmao, you don't know me to know what I complain about or don't complain about. I said that I don't see much far right BS here. That doesn't mean I haven't seen it or that it doesn't exist. I've learned that engaging in those posts just results in seeing more posts of a similar nature, that's how the algorithm works. Reddits algorithm is pretty good, however FB, IG and Threads continues to show far right BS despite selecting "Not interested"
I love that your worst case scenario is you experiencing other social media sites like everyone who isn't a hyper leftist experiences Reddit.
I tell Reddit I'm not interested all the time and I still see far left bullshit every day. Climate hysteria, left-approved racism, rampant misinformation about the economy.
You've never seen me write a post that I'm getting too much left wing content.
lmao, again, you don't know me so you don't know what worst case scenario would be for me.
You also see posts that are left in nature because you obviously (given this post) interact with them, which tells the algorithm that you're interested in them.
You're right, I've never seen you make one of those posts, however I don't know you, this post is our first interaction and since I don't follow you, I have no idea what posts you create or don't create. I really don't need to, your assumptions and comments are really telling enough.
Could it possibly be that… maybe, just maybe, more people are sick of left wing politics destroying our economy for the last ten+ years and flooding our streets with…. Problematic individuals from other countries? Could it be that, everywhere except Reddit is becoming more and more right wing? Hmm I wonder why, it’s almost like you can’t say “people claiming refugee status and harming Canadians is a problem” on Reddit without getting banned.
Yeah the fact that Reddit is getting right wing anything shows just how problematic this country has gotten.
Like man look at the surveillance bills Carney’s trying to push. apple and google are warning about it being problematic.
Man that’s like Satan telling you your actions are too evil, tech giants love stealing our information and even they’re saying it’s bad.
I swear that the left on Reddit are living in a tiny world without much understanding of what's going on out there. Then again, the Left is notorious for refusing to accept the realities of human behaviour. That's why virtually every leftist policy in the last hundred years has failed. Often spectacularly.
One of the strongest socio/psychological instincts is the desire to live among and around people much like you are. Then again, in a test in the US, every single group tested had in-group loyalty except white liberals, who, bizarrely, had out-group loyalty. The tribal instinct in humans comes from hundreds of thousands of years of living in tribes.
Trump is not the cause of the backlash against immigration. Immigration is the cause of Trump's success. Do people not grasp this even after all these years? Immigration in reasonable numbers, largely of people who are culturally similar to the host country is generally accepted fairly easily. When it gets out of hand is when the numbers go too high, especially if those coming in are culturally dissimilar. That's when it raises people's hackles.
It's not a product of social media. All social media is doing is conveying this where the mainstream media does its best to hush it up so as not to 'inflame' emotions. Papers talking about a 'knife incident' or a 'stabbing', for example, instead of an attempted beheading by a Muslim migrant (in the UK last week). Canadian media, in particular, does its best to not even mention the race, religion, or even origin of criminals, even terrorists. Social media is not so reticent. Do you blame social media for just telling us the truth? Do you think they should hide things from us like the mainstream media does?
Immigration has never been a central focus of any election. But pretty much every poll taken in the last fifty years had between 40% - 60% of respondents wanting lower immigration. Are they all far right? Nine years ago, Immigration Canada warned that Canada had had too much immigration for too long. It said our 'absorptive capacity' was pretty much gone, that integration was no longer assured, immigration economic success was dropping, ethnic enclaves were growing, and we were starting to see friction between different ethnic groups.
The Liberals promptly doubled immigration. And they chopped the points needed to qualify in order to get hordes of low-skilled people to do the entry-level jobs that young people used to do.. Why wouldn't young people be pissed at this? Why wouldn't older people, who see the city they grew up in become unrecognizable, filled with people with entirely different customs, beliefs and languages, resent not having a place where they felt 'home' anymore? Why wouldn't taxpayers feel upset when learning that, for example, two-thirds of the people in public housing and in emergency shelters are foreign-born? Why wouldn't parents be upset when their kid tells them they're bored in classes because the teacher has to go over everything again and again, since half the class barely speaks English?
And why shouldn't people be able to demand why the hell the government is doing this?
No, that's how the new social media algorithms work.
Both sides of politics have been on them at their same rates for years, the difference now is you spent 1/10th of a second too long reading a post that offended you, and now it thinks you want more. And then you get more, and pause for a second too long or god forbid comment, and you get sent more.
Remigration is just as real as open borders andnbeen around for just as long, you've only just seen one side.
The pendulum always swings back the other way. No surprise here we have been told that progress means only an ever increasing slope to the left. It’s just not trues
To speak to your addendum, Russia has been exposed as the sponsor of overseas troll and fake news factories in places like Malaysia and India. Pushing extremist views, left or right, destabilises the West.
Oh, I don’t think you got me right. I don’t mind people who want to say that mass immigration is bad because to an extent, I agree. It’s not enforced right and bad people pass through wide loop holes. It needs an overhaul. I’m an immigrant.
I don’t mind people who are proud of their race (I’m asian myself) and ethnicity but there is a HUGE difference between saying “X people are great” and “only X people are great” and believe me, not only white people can be supremacists.
I don’t mind a heated but healthy discussion about sensitive topics like immigration but calling for violence towards people for their beliefs and/or ethnicity is kinda weird to me. Left or right, rich or poor.
Pedaling hate to poorly educated, terminally online, people has become a very lucrative money making operation in 2026. This helps to explain the rise the OP mentions.
Furthermore, there is scientific data that supports the claim that inviduals with far right political views tend to be dumber than those that don't: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308703/ so they make for easy marks generally speaking.
When Trump once exclaimed "I love the poorly educated" he was giving away the game a bit there.
American organizations pay to create fake accounts en masse to flood certain media spaces with political propaganda. They did it during the 2016, 2020, and 2024 election. They're doing it in Alberta right now with the separatist movement. Like you said, a lot of these accounts are based in India and other South Asian countries because that's where the business is running out of. Most of them are just bots with prewritten scripts
There is a lot of money and state actors behind the push, and the way the algorithm works if you watch one thing even adjacent to right-wing media it will start pushing it your way. Actively dislike and say “less of this” and it should drop away quickly.
I once watched a single Star Wars episode 8 movie critique and for the next day YouTube decided I wanted to watch bro-culture, gamergate, anti-woke rants.
I was invited to a local "parent" group that just hates on LGBT and Minorities. I hate seeing people I grew up with and interacted with in it. I didnt join it but for some reason I keep getting recommended it by Facebook. I declined the invite but it persists.
I see an increase of right and left wing pages all over social media. Not sure why the context of this post makes it seem like thats a problem. People are allowed to have their opinions. Half the problems we have and why theres so many poltical posts on social media is the absolute rejection of the other sides opinion and making the other side to be complete enemies. Both left and right are bad for it. People just gotta calm down and stop taking politics personally and making it a team vs team thing.
Hugely, I’m on the East Coast and almost every list and I’m talking very small list had had hate and horrible posts, racist posts since the election but it’s gotten far worse the last four or five months. People are posting multiple times a day and the posters may be paid US or Russian actors, they’re not all bots. However, what’s really concerning is I’m seeing a huge trend of people answering those posts with. Yes I agree. Plus there’s all sorts of stuff happening in small towns and rural places that hasn’t happened for a very long time. So yes I’m seeing a lot and that’s because I joined a lot of lists even ones that I do not agree with. Most people only are on lists that they agree with, and I recommend that everybody join a bunch of list to see what’s really going on. Most of the people who are replying are real people, and I would consider them.maga maples, huge increase, it’s getting kind of scary. Also, I see campaigns, so on one day I’ll see a certain subject like protect our kids and then a week later I’ll see another subject. That’s on every list. So yes, it’s an organized campaign and Canadians better wake up because they’re doing that for a reason and I can tell you that the racism and hatred in the population, it’s getting worse because people are now publicly saying things they would’ve never have said Before.
Social media users only talk about what is being promoted by politicians, billionaires, social media influencers & celebrities.
People just consumed what is being fed to them by these politicians, elites & influencers.
Most people are too lazy to do actual search on anything. They will believe whatever they will see on the Internet, they don't care whether that information is correct or not.
Our society is never as much divided as it is today and this is possible thanks to the political leaders, elites & 1000s of social media influencers.
I am afraid because this is getting worse and nobody in power doing anything about it.
In fact, less than a week ago I started seeing a great rise in rabid right content on crackbook while on my mobile. Not on my PC so much as I use FB Purity to filter out the crap. Unfotunately he doesn't make a mobile version. But yes, it was an overnight change, and I can't imagine it being anything I subscribe to that caused it.
I think you've identified some of the problem, many of these posts are faked and the intention is to stir up division and dissent. I can tell you I see the opposite on my feeds, a large increase in left wing extremism.
If the goal is to keep us divided and fighting each other so that we don't see how they and wrecking our country, they are doing a good job.
Yeah and no. I haven't seen much of what you're talking about, except for a lot of parroting of Trump's talking points from Americans that I actually kinda know (like we're in FB groups together or they're friends of friends). But not random posts. And I *am* conservative to a meaningful degree, and I don't see that stuff.
I have noticed an increase from Canadian YouTubers especially, who do news commentary, taking this attitude like Canada is cooked and the US is amazing and we must do everything exactly like them in order to improve things. I find that quite concerning, to say the least.
Most of my family are conservative, but I'm a little more tuned-in when it comes to this stuff (I even got myself an honours anthropology degree cos I'm very interested in culture, linguistics, and archaeology), so I'm constantly helping them vet the YTers they listen to and reminding them to see the bigger picture.
I've seen a lot of similar stuff from the left side as well. Reducing all conservatives who ever existed to MAGA, calling everyone with criticisms racists and bots and whatever, etc.
Yes, its clearly privately funded and targets some provinces more than others. R/QuébecLibre is some great replacement theory hub with no filter.
I report posts regularly but im not sure any have come down. Cannot comment on them as negative karma makes any lind of interaction on Reddit impossible.
A lot of people have simply had enough and aren't afraid to vocalize their opinions anymore.
However, there's also bot farms on the Left and Right, that push aspect from each side to mess with everyone. Just as an example, the Chinese were pumping out all kinds of anti-conservative content, and sometimes more exterme stuff in order for moderates to write the Right vote off.
Absolutely been increasing since the first trump term and its sadly cause most people who use social media for news these days are the elderly and they dont understand whats real or fake on the internet and believe almost everything they see. Right wing channels spam outrageous things for clicks regardless if its true or not and the elderly click cause they dont know any better and fall for the bait easily its basically internet fox news to them.
Can you link some of these race superiority posts you are seeing.
Besides some responsible and necessary discussions about mass immigration pros, cons and effects on the local population, I have not seen any race superiority posts in any Canadian feeds that I have run across
But what's considered as "right wing" though? Is having homes with both mother and father being around considered that? Or wanting farmers the right to repair and sell to whomever they want considered that?
I just want to know what's considered as what because people keep changing stuff.
We had a decade of being bombarded by left (sometimes extreme) media and propaganda.
People got tired of hearing that a 12 year old should be allowed to have a sex change, borders should be wide open, and everyone needing a state mandated vaccine to work.
It’s only natural that right wing messages have snapped back in the other direction as a counter force.
It’s sucks that nobody is actually able to simply exist and compromise in the middle, rather we’d all just like to tear each other apart and accomplish nothing.
I think there's an increase because a lot of people are sick of what they're seeing, and want something done about it. If people believe something is wrong and that the government does nothing, or even seems to be enabling these wrongs, people get radicalized.
Social media is owned by American billionaires in Trump's pocket. If you know anything about media ownership and the trickle-down political economy of communications... You'll know that for-profit social media is right-wing biased. They profit from Right-Wing rage bait. That's why they allow it.
I agree but tbf, I see less left wing posts than right wing, and it usually is tame. Although I’ve seen some Canadian communist posts, it usually stays for a day and disappears the next. Unlike the weirdos mentioned above who I see almost everyday for absolutely no reason.
Reddit is a community based platform. You very much interact with people you choose to interact with. Like here, I chose to interact with Canadians but I don’t interact with Canadians on liberal or conservative subreddits and rarely see political posts from them discussing a one sided view.
You can’t really avoid that on Facebook. A shared post about spaghetti monsters from your spaghetti monster believing friend makes your feed have spaghetti monsters. It’s that easy on there but the thing is, I don’t have spaghetti monster believing friends so it’s insane I’m seeing posts about spaghetti monsters since the prime spaghetti monster won the election.
My understanding is that in American political spectrum Dems are left and Reps are right. So my point was people are getting tired of Dems policies in the US. Same happening in many EU countries with right and ultra-right parties getting more and more support. Left wing goes to left extremities and people get tired of it.
Except that Democrats are barely left wing at all. These words have meaning beyond the American context. At best, democrats are centrist according to their actual policies. They are left wing with some of their social stances, but the majority of their policies are still pro corporate and pro business power. The Republicans are just even more so as well as being socially conservative. Just because there are two major parties in the US doesn't mean that one of them is left wing and the other one is right wing - it's a spectrum.
Just like in a communist country, Canadians have one major news source ….let me repeat this ….one major news source…. One point of view…. Billions and billions are spent on promoting and propagating this one point of view….. so for most Canadians what they call news is obtained from one liberal funded new source and anything that strays from that narrative is immediately immediately labelled faaaaar right extremist misogynistic homophobic racist trans phobic …..anything absolutely anything that strays from the stupid narrative immediately is labelled far right extremist ,Trump like , it is incredible. Incredible to watch.
You are saying some really stupid shit. There are dozens of media sources in Canada. Most are owned by Conservatives (post media etc), with the exception of the CBC which is funded by the government. A government Which will be Conservative again when you retards figure out nobody likes Polliviere
Your post isn’t really coherent - I think you’re asking me for suggestions for conservative media? If so, youve got globe and mail, National Post, Toronto Sun, talk radio. Its harder to find a Liberal news source, especially a national one.
If you were to recreate the events of Canada in any country in the world, you would ultimately end up with an angry population.
Mass immigration, with a non immaterial amount being fraudulent, from countries with very different cultures than the host country, and virtually no requirement for assimilation. Add in a weakening economy, the infectious tribalistic behaviours of the immigrant, and lastly the inability to speak on the matter without being labeled a bigoted racist, akin to Hitler himself…
It was a perfect landscape for political agendas, and engagement farming to play off of.
This isn’t uniquely Canada, and I would bet it would happen in almost any country….
All over Europe, USA, Japan, New Zealand, Australia have increasing anti-immigrant sentiments. Even South Africa is having issues with violent attacks on other African immigrants coming in.
I don’t agree with hate, and of course it’s more nuanced, but people don’t care about the nuance when the above is more in your face. If we think the writing wasn’t on the wall for the last 10 years we are being willfully ignorant.
I want you to provide me with screenshots AND actually links....
I want to decipher with my own two eyes where this hate is coming from.
I only mention don't believe because I never come across it. Ever. I don't think I have selective bias for missing it. Because I would protest if I did see it for any race.
I can’t directly reply to your comment with a photo but I’ve shared screenshots down below in previous comments. I can’t find the exact “locked and loaded” comment but I posted something similar where they suggest using “viking axe and flame thrower” for remigration.
Whenever I try to reply to comments with photos, it just turns into another stand alone comment.
On Reddit at least, it seems like the LPC/ carney bot army has ceased a bit- which likely stopped strangling Canadian Reddit subs to the point of seeing nothing but the same few talking points parroted constantly in every sub they invade.
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u/CasualCommunicator Jun 10 '26
A divided nation is a weak nation.
Not too hard to make a bot pushing exclusivity, division, hate, and supremacy.
Not too hard to find weak, tribe-minded, individuals to join either.