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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聽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.聽 Taylor Owen, professor at 91社区 and the co-creator of the...

Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge Launched ahead of 2019 Election

Published: 10 July 2019

Dr. Taylor Owen, holder of the Beaverbrook聽Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications received, with Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), a Canada History Fund聽grant to run the聽Digital...

Canadians' media-consumption habits lead to misinformation, study finds

Published: 23 September 2019

August 7, 2019聽| Canadians aren鈥檛 as divided into partisan echo chambers as social media would suggest, but a heavy news diet doesn't guarantee you'll be informed, a new study has found....

Canadians' media-consumption habits lead to misinformation | National Observer

Published: 8 August 2019

August 7, 2019 | A report published by the Digital Democracy Project suggests that overall misinformation levels in Canada are low. However, certain trends in media consumption put news consumers...

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