CAF members used personal social media to spy on Canadians' Covid opinions
The Canadian military spied on citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic using their own personal social media accounts to test out new propaganda techniques.
The Canadian Armed Forces quietly gathered information on Canadian citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic using personal social media accounts and informal online monitoring, despite rules that explicitly prohibit that kind of intelligence collection.
The military tasked multiple units without any prior training in intelligence-gathering, to aggregate data on fellow Canadians regarding their public opinions about the CAF’s domestic response to the pandemic to influence their future decisions.
