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1. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Grant Robertson

   Smith acknowledges foreign influence campaigns targeting Alberta referendum (opens the original)

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   Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has acknowledged the province’s referendum on separation is being targeted by foreign influence campaigns, after Canadian researchers released new data this week indicating Russian cyberoperations in particular are focused on the contentious debate. The research, published Monday in The Globe and Mail, linked a surge in online activity this summer – including social-media posts, memes, headlines, false news items and other content designed to be unwittingly circula

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2. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Grant Robertson

   Russian, U.S. actors are targeting Albertans with pro-separatist content, research shows (opens the original)

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   Canadian researchers using artificial intelligence to track foreign interest in the Alberta separatism debate have found the province’s political discourse is being targeted online by Russian and American interests in both overt and covert ways. The first data from a study that began last month indicate Russian content farms have been pushing pro-separatist content into online communities and using Canadians to “launder” those messages by sharing such material on their social media feeds, the re

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