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Subhead:The focal point of a CBC investigation turned out to be a noodle vendor from Indonesia, who, while piggybacking on discussions about Alberta's independence movement, earned $14 USD in a month from Meta.# The CBC headline is pretty leading. It says, “Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism.” Technically, the claim in the extended article from Canada’s state broadcaster is true. In reality, though, the payments are minuscule and don’t represent some conspiracy of foreign interference from hostile states. Because the topic of Alberta’s pending referendum is hot, it has drawn attention from people wanting to make money from social media traffic. It was found in April that a Dutch content creator had spawned a number of fake YouTube channels to capitalize on the independence issue. The dollars earned were significant, but it didn’t mean that YouTube was specifically paying to promote independence, nor that it was some form of foreign interference from the Netherlands itself. It was just some profiteering individuals, and YouTube has since shut the accounts down. With this latest CBC article, they go way out on a limb as they desperately try to find evidence of foreign actors being paid to tear Canada asunder. The primary account they focused on was a person going by the name Nieta Aqila, who, it turns out, is a noodle vendor from Indonesia. She was piggybacking on Meta discussions about Alberta’s independence and had earned an earthshattering $14 USD in one month! If Meta is participating in a conspiracy to pay foreigners to mess with Canada, they are rather frugal with it. Amazon-embed:B0GXDXZ6LX
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