"COVER UP EXPOSED @PierrePoilievres wife @AnaPoilievre wife in 2020 was CEO of SWITCH HEALTH leading supplier of covid test kits," says the text of a March 5, 2023 tweet, accompanied by a video. The video features Chris Saccoccia, better known as Chris Sky, an activist who gained renown for defying Canada's pandemic-era travel restrictions and who AFP previously fact-checked.
In the video, which also spread to Facebook, Saccoccia says he asked the AI-powered program ChatGPT about contracts obtained during the pandemic by Switch Health.
He claimed the AI chatbot provided him with links to articles describing how Anaida Poilievre was CEO of the medical testing firm. Similar claims appeared on TikTok.
In replies and later tweets, Saccoccia provided AI-generated links and headlines to articles -- purportedly from CTV and CBC, among others -- but searching for the links and headlines provided leads to error pages.
Saccoccia claimed this information was "scrubbed" from the internet to cover...
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