{"id":44987,"date":"2026-04-22T02:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44987"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:01:31","slug":"a-network-of-youtube-accounts-is-promoting-u-s-annexation-to-albertans-researchers-say-it-has-40-million-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44987","title":{"rendered":"A network of YouTube accounts is promoting U.S. annexation to Albertans, researchers say. It has 40 million views"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/investigations\/a-network-of-youtube-accounts-is-promoting-us-annexation-to-albertans-researchers-say-it-has-40m-views\/article_b26d9311-f3f1-4304-a443-360f51f6a558.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e69cba941d9.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Flagged as a &#8220;potential covert influence operation&#8221; in a new report, those behind the network are tough to trace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/investigations\/a-network-of-youtube-accounts-is-promoting-us-annexation-to-albertans-researchers-say-it-has-40m-views\/article_b26d9311-f3f1-4304-a443-360f51f6a558.html\">A network of YouTube accounts is promoting U.S. annexation to Albertans, researchers say. It has 40 million views<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>these are exactly like the channels i was seeing ~6 months ago and started reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagged as a &#8220;potential covert influence operation&#8221; in a new report, those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,945,16],"class_list":["post-44987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-rwnj","tag-youtube","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44990,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44987\/revisions\/44990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}