Chinese state-run media and pro-Beijing actors have been publishing disinformation narratives on various platforms in what was likely a “coordinated influence operation” targeting Chinese-Canadian voters in the 2021 Canadian federal election, says an organization specializing in exposing disinformation. DisinfoWatch, a Canadian platform that monitors and exposes foreign disinformation activities in the country, reported in September that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated entities have targeted Chinese-Canadian voters and federal candidates from the Conservative Party during the 2021 federal election. “After analysing available open-source data and consulting with key stakeholders, we believe that the timing and content of narratives indicate the likelihood of a coordinated influence operation targeting Chinese-Canadian voters,” the group said in a recent news release, co-authored by Marcus Kolga, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and Ai-Men Lau, communications officer at the Canadian think tank. “The objective of this false narrative was to incite fear and …