Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy prime minister, sought to distance herself from Mr. Trudeau in a public letter criticizing him for “costly political gimmicks.” By Vjosa Isai ...

Chrystia Freeland Steps Out of Trudeau’s Shadow as She Goes for His Job Ms. Freeland is vying to become Canada’s next Liberal Party leader and prime minister on Sunday.

SITE reported that over 30 WeChat news accounts were involved in the campaign against Freeland. The articles received significant engagement and views. Between January 29 and February 3, these ...

SITE estimates that the campaign reached 2 to 3 million WeChat users worldwide. Freeland joined the race to lead the Liberal Party after Trudeau announced his resignation last month. A close ally of ...

“RRM Canada detected coordinated and malicious activity about Ms. Freeland. The launch of this information operation was traced to WeChat’s most popular news account – an anonymous blog that has been ...

Canada has detected malicious activity targeting Liberal Party candidate and former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. The suspected interference has been traced to a WeChat account linked to ...

Chrystia Freeland, who was also finance minister, quit the government in December, precipitating a crisis which led to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement in early January that he ...

A Canadian government agency has detected a coordinated campaign targeting Liberal Party leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland, traced to a Chinese WeChat account. The campaign leveraged over 30 ...

A Canadian task force reported malicious activities on Chinese social media targeting Chrystia Freeland, who aims to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader. These attacks, traced to an ...

SITE revealed that over 30 WeChat accounts participated in the effort against Freeland, amassing more than 140,000 interactions between January 29 and February 3.