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How Facebook Became Canada’s Shadow Media System

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Jesse Hirsh
Jan 10, 2026
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Hybrid war does not advance on speeches or slogans. It advances on infrastructure.

In Canada, one of the most consequential pieces of that infrastructure is Facebook—not as a social network, but as the country’s dominant local information system. It is where emergencies are named, reputations are made or broken, conflicts are adjudicated, and “what every…

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