In recent weeks and months, yellow vest demonstrations across Canada have frequently attracted far-right extremists and hate groups through their Facebook groups. As Canada's federal election fast approaches ⁠— with all the fierce rhetoric that the campaign is sure to elicit ⁠— real-world consequences, which are already in evidence, could quickly pile up.

Twitter users responded to the revelation that #TrudeauMustGo was boosted by inauthentic activity with a new hashtag.

An edited video of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit, a scandal-plagued robocall firm implicated in a mysterious mass text-messaging campaign, signs of foreign interference and more.

A claim that Indigenous men kill 70 per cent of MMIWG was picked up by white nationalist Faith Goldy and a former editor-in-chief of the Walrus. It wasn't true.