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Far-right influencers the biggest dupes of foreign interference

Canadian Dimension
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US Department of Justice indicted two employees of Russian state broadcaster RT for allegedly laundering $10 million in Kremlin funding to pay contributors of Tennessee -based Tenet Media through Canadian far-right influencer Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan .

The worldviews of the Canadian and American far right line up neatly with Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s nationalism, militarism, and penchant for rewarding politically aligned oligarchs with state largesse .

Some Canadian pundits have reflexively drawn an equivalency between how the far right and far-left relate to Russian state interests.

Naomi Wolf is a stand-in for many nominally progressive figures who, in part thanks to social media algorithms, have crossed into what Klein calls the “mirror world,” adopting increasingly far-right positions.

Opposing vaccines, in the mirror world, becomes akin to supporting abortion rights; opposing trans rights becomes supporting women's rights.