“Dumbfakes” are simpler and more easily unmasked bogus videos, and they are easy and often cheap to produce. Continue reading →

A fake video doesn’t have to be complicated to go viral. Continue reading →

Here are some tips from experts on how to determine whether content on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube is real. Continue reading →

In Canada, that number drops to 46 per cent, despite 90 per cent of Canadians saying they have fallen for fake news. Continue reading →

Canada’s Digital Charter lacks sufficient legal enforcement power to effectively protect privacy and regulate use of personal data, according to critics worried that a smart city project in Toronto by Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs unit could be misused for mass surveillance. Continue reading →

Nearly all of the fake accounts were caught before they had a chance to become “active” users of the social network. Continue reading →

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the federal government will look to update the Privacy Act as part of an effort to build greater trust in the digital world. Continue reading →

The campaign is another indication of how online disinformation is being tested by countries well beyond Russia, Continue reading →

“We have removed a series of false and duplicated accounts which violated our authenticity policy, as well as several pages due to violation of rules on name changing,” a spokesman for Facebook in Italy said in an emailed statement. Continue reading →