India, Feb. 8 -- Canadian authorities have said that former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland's campaign to become the next leader of the ruling Liberal Party has been targeted by an "information operation" on Chinese social media.

Global Affairs Canada's Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM Canada), while monitoring the digital information ecosystem during the Liberal Party leadership race, identified an information operation targeting Freeland, a statement from the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force or SITE said on Friday.

"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 ha...