This is an education issue not a technological issue. Better education will allow people to recognize and process propaganda and disinformation as well as teaching their children and families to do the same. Unfortunately that would also allow people to recognize propaganda and disinformation from both foreign and domestic sources and would make things more difficult for Canadian politicians.
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And this is a world wide issue. Some actively want uneducated as it's easier to convince them to vote them into power.
Tiktok has some crazy propaganda accounts that show up in my feed, although in fairness so does Youtube and Instagram.
The amount of very clearly fake content being ingested is a significant societal issue especially for platforms with kids. There really needs to be some proper records attached to accounts with the amount fake things they've circulated. No one should wander onto the account's of some of the biggest social media names and think they're a credible person.