russian bots wouldve done the same, if not at a better effect than US would.

The backend on YouTube is pretty much designed to encourage skub (ragebait/“engagement”). Having comments that are incendiary is good for the video’s performance.

Does that make it the perfect breeding ground for astroturfing and pushing misinformation? Probably. Bad actors can basically use it as a cheap form of advertising and pushing ideas that benefit them. Even the creator of the video if it was a video that has a completely opposite viewpoint of those comments still stands to benefit from having them because that increases engagement and their revenue.

So I guess my point is is that YouTube has a lot of problems and there is a multitude of reasons why comments like that have a home there and motives for them.

Hey, totally not an American agent here. Comments have totally always been like that. Just ignore it and don’t push back, troll them, or engage in anyway. You should just post about how you don’t like this stuff on Lemmy where it’s just us here.

We’ll see. If think USA is pulling a Crimea with Alberta. It’s the same strategy with separatists.

Regardless of whether or not these particular comments are US intelligence, I am 100% convinced that Trump is going to try and make Alberta the Canadian Donbas.

They’ll do their little Wexit vote thing and they’ll lose, but there will be a massive amount of disinfo in all of the places you’d expect saying it was rigged, and they’ll just escalate from there. Who knows when the guns break out, but I feel like there are people down south who are planning on this leading to a military “liberation”

This has been happening for a while on shit like toktok. I personally suspected Russia.

Obviously not from Alberta. Proper grammar and punctuation is a dead give away.

Canada should ban YouTube for being foreign interference with their sovereignty.

this is everywhere. I can’t read comments on UK news videos because they’re spammed with absolutely vile sewage spewed from LOADS of accounts. definitely botting going on.

This can be anybody really. Russia for example is known to just stir the pot as much as possible. Whatever argument will cause destabilization.

Is that Youtube comments?

Lol, if you are just realizing this, I think you are late to the party buddy.

Youtube has been filled with extremist comments for a while, like at least a decade now.

Closer to #40 by GDP if they were to keep their economy as strong as it is now, which they wouldn’t as they would be landlocked and absorbed by the US in a matter of months and would then by #23 out of 51 states instead of the #1 province…

@dwazou Just because your paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you

Would be nice if people just completely disregarded the opinion of about 5 obvious bots or a troll house. Counting on you Canada. Don’t get sucked into the social media shit hole like the rest of the world did.

Talk to real people that you know, don’t form your opinions entirely from the internet