Canada Begins to Combat Russian Propaganda
The House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament has passed a resolution to counter disinformation in Canada and globally. This includes combating Russian fakes about an unprovoked, genocidal war that Russia is allegedly waging in Ukraine.
This is reported on the website of the Canadian Parliament.
The resolution was submitted by the MP Judy Sgro. According to the text, the House of Commons recognizes that disinformation is "organized by some foreign regimes" and has harmed democracy worldwide, including the "political stability of Canada."
Parliamentarians also call on the Canadian government to "take into account the circumstances of ongoing conflicts in the world and their impact on disinformation on a global level, especially the Russian digital propaganda in the context of the Russian unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine."
The importance of investigating examples of "Russian disinformation campaigns" that manipulatively mention Canada is emphasized separately.
It is worth noting that Canada recently imposed sanctions on nine individuals and six legal entities from Russia directly involved in spreading Russian disinformation and propaganda.
Thus, the sanctions list included former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu, Andrey Ilnitsky, and the wife of Moldovan oligarch-fugitive Ilan Shor - Sara Shor. Restrictions were also imposed on six Russian historians and political scientists.
In addition, sanctions were introduced against organizations spreading disinformation. Among them are the analytical "Center for Socio-Conservative Policy," the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Kremlin organization promoting the brand of Russia - Russia Beyond, as well as the publications "Izvestia," "Parlamentskaya Gazeta," and the Russian REN-TV channel.
The Gaze has earlier reported that France accused Russia of attempting to destabilize the situation in the country. It was about the involvement of a Russian bot farm in a disinformation campaign, during which photos of graffiti depicting the Star of David appeared in one of the districts of Paris on social media.
Earlier, it became known that such graffiti was created to order by a Russian citizen.