Chinese state-run media and pro-Beijing actors published 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, which monitors and exposes foreign disinformation activities in Canada, reported in September that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated entities 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,” says a Dec. 1 report co-authored by Marcus Kolga, DisinfoWatch founder and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and Ai-Men Lau, communications officer at the Ottawa-based think tank. “The objective of this false narrative was to incite fear and anger towards the candidate and the …