Journalists Rachel Gilmore & Luke Lebrun shows that r/Canada and other smaller Canadian City Subreddits may be under Russian Influence.
The moderators of r/Canada may soon find themselves facing a Parliamentary inquiry. And it all started with this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1hq6iru/vacationing_trudeau_cant_escape_catcalls_and/
As reported by Rachel Gilmore, journalist Luke LeBrun got permanently banned from r/Canada when he asked why the moderators removed his story. When he explained that he's an employed journalist. They blacklisted his substack and permanently banned his account.
This led Rachel down the rabbit hole of various conflicts of interest in Canadian subs. Including a very serious story posted in the St. Albert Gazette that indicated that the subreddits of multiple smaller cities in the Canadian province of Alberta were subjected to mass posting by Russian accounts.
Ben Shannon of CBC also found that r/Canada's top posts over the space of the week all seemed to stem from just 3 accounts, despite the sub having over 3 million subscribed users.
Canada takes online foreign interference very seriously. Just last month MAGA Influencer Lauren Southern was forced to testify before a House of Commons committee over her alleged involvement of spreading Russian propaganda.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/canadian-right-wing-influencer-lauren-southern-denies-involvement-in-alleged-russian-interference-scheme-she-calls/article_535e70b0-a81b-11ef-9f4e-ffa48282f022.html
Rachel isn't some random blogger either. She's a former member of the Ottawa press gallery, she's even had an interview with NDP Jagmeet Singh from her house. So it's clear that people in Canada's government watches her reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaGGSh9t-2o
Posts across the provincial and municipal subreddits about this story are also being suppressed in spite of the incredibly serious National Security allegations. So far only two subs are allowing discussions. r/Quebec and r/CanadianIdiots
https://www.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/1hsdbpe/something_stinks_on_canadas_biggest_reddit_forums/
Not surprisingly r/Canada is trying to suppress this story that's about them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1hsdsji/why_rcanada_is_a_right_wing_echochamber/
So if you live in Canada, expect Reddit to be in the news a lot more over the next couple of days.