A suspected bot campaign surrounding a recent Pierre Poilievre event shows that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are easily accessible to anyone looking to influence political messaging online, researchers have found.
In July, the social media platform X was inundated with posts following the Conservative leader’s tour of Northern Ontario.
The posts claimed to be from people who attended Poilievre’s event in Kirkland Lake, Ont., but were actually generated by accounts in Russia, France and other places, and many of them had similar messaging.
