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Yeah, sure.

Sounds like a great way to funnel untraceable money, through YouTube views, into a separatist campaign.

Our former ally is an enemy and a threat to our national security.

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[–] ClockworkN@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For people who don't watch the video but read the commentary here. CBC found that "faceless" YouTube entrepreneurs have been churning out disengenuous content. They seemingly have no ties to governments or businesses with ulterior motives, instead they are just chasing revenue and posting stuff that gets views.

What I don't think the video does a good enough job of though is explaining that algorithms monetise rage bait and thereby amplify fringe viewpoints.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you're suffering from the same lack of curiosity that the CBC suffers.

I want to know why random Dutch guys thought that it would be profitable to get into the separatist influencer game, and go through the effort of setting all this up in the first place. Why didn't the CBC ask them why they even know about this issue or why they figured a maximum audience of 6% of the population of Alberta would be enough to give them thousands a month in income? What are their viewership statistics anyway?

[–] ClockworkN@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Good questions. They didn't go into that enough.