Fake election news ads are luring people into investment schemes. We got some taken down [Video]

Fake CBC News articles that link to sketchy investment schemes are flooding social media with sensational headlines about the Canadian election and other recent political developments.

CBC’s visual investigations unit reported on a similar scam in late January, where fake articles lured victims to Quantum AI, a well-known scam. But this latest generation of fake content has been updated to take advantage of new events with surprising speed. One fake article referencing a federal tariff relief initiative is dated March 23 — Prime Minister Mark Carney made a similar announcement days earlier, on March 21.

After CBC News reached out to Facebook parent company Meta and the Toronto-based company hosting one of the website domains, several of the Facebook accounts behind the ads were disabled and one website domain was suspended.

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