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.

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

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.

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

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