Digital Democracy Project

• Canada’s election has been ‘largely clean’ of misinformation, research shows

  The Digital Democracy Project, an initiative from the Public Policy Forum and McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy, collaborated with New York University's Center for Cybersecurity to look at ads on Facebook during the first several weeks of the election.

  Canada

  Oct 10, 2019
  
• Bots have small role in federal campaign so far, study finds

  Bots aren't playing a major role in the campaign so far, a study of social media shows.

  Politics

  Oct 4, 2019
  
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• Social media marks a new battleground as Canada’s federal election looms

  Social media content receives upwards of a million online shares, reactions and comments each week — more than some of Canada’s top mainstream news outlets.

  Sep 14, 2019
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• Canadian academics, scientists fight back against online election disinformation

  The Digital Democracy Project monitors how information is consumed and shared online during the Canadian federal election campaign.

  Sep 13, 2019
• People with strong partisan views get more facts wrong on a current events test: survey

  The report also found Canadians of different political views shared media sources to a larger extent than in the United States.

  Politics

  Aug 8, 2019