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Algorithm 'gatekeepers' undermine democracy and health | Montreal Gazette

Published: 10 August 2020

August 6, 2020 | Social media and other digital platforms have begun to overtake traditional journalism as our primary sources of information. The communications difficulties surrounding the COVID...

A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus: Elite and Public Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada | Canadian Journal of Political Science

Published: 21 May 2020

April 16, 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic has placed nearly unprecedented pressure on policymakers and citizens alike. Effectively containing the pandemic requires a societal consensus. However, a...

COVID-19 pandemic uniting Canadians like no other event in decades

Published: 25 May 2020

Canada's response to the pandemic contrasts markedly with the political partisanship displayed in U.S....

Can an ad boycott fix Facebook's hate speech problem? | CBC News

Published: 8 July 2020

July 6, 2020 | Over 800 companies are pulling their ads from Facebook in response to the Stop Hate for Profit boycott, led by civil rights groups who want to remove hate speech from the platform....

People with strong partisan views get more facts wrong on a current events test: survey | Global News

Published: 8 August 2019

August 8, 2019 | A survey launched by the Digital Democracy Project found that most Canadians across the political spectrum got a common set of facts from an array of mainstream media outlets. The...

Prospective Economic Costs Undermine Expectations of Social Distancing | OSF Preprints

Published: 21 May 2020

May 20, 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an extraordinary burden on governments and citizens alike. In order to contain the spread of the pandemic and limit its effect on health care systems...

Anti-intellectualism and Information Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic | OSF Preprints

Published: 21 May 2020

May 14, 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates widespread voluntary and sustained public compliance with expert-guided public health directives, like social or physical distancing. Understanding...

Fake news preys on emotions, expert warns

Published: 23 September 2019

August 10, 2019| Beware of things you see online that make you emotional, one media expert warns ahead of the fall election.  Taylor Owen, professor at 51Թ and the co-creator of the...

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