Report on the 45th Canadian General Election
Monitoring of Canada's April 2025 federal election found election-themed scam ads widespread on Meta and X, CCP-aligned narratives circulating on Chinese-language platforms, and TikTok's feed favouring US content despite majority-Canadian creators; the report calls for stronger researcher data access.
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Reset Tech monitored the information environment around Canada's 45th general election, held on 28 April 2025, across Meta, X, TikTok and the Chinese-language platforms WeChat, RedNote and Weibo.
The researchers found election-themed scam advertising widespread on Meta and X, CCP-aligned narratives circulating on the Chinese-language services, and a TikTok feed that disproportionately surfaced US content even though most creators were Canadian. Limited access to platform data repeatedly constrained what could be measured.
The report recommends stronger, enforceable researcher data-access rules of the kind the EU DSA provides, arguing that election integrity cannot be independently assessed without them.
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