/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/2535/all en /maxbellschool/channels/news/mcgill-university-launches-canadian-election-misinformation-project-332439 <p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽聽</p> Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:57:26 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 2635 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadians-will-see-less-politics-facebook-during-election-cbc-news-332444 <p>August 18, 2021 |聽Facebook and other social media companies have done a lot over the past five years to address the problem of their platforms' being used by bad actors to influence elections or spread misinformation. However, they still have a way to go. The <a href="/maxbellschool/research/centre-media-technology-and-democracy/mediaecosystemobservatory">Media Ecosystems Observatory</a>'s聽Aengus Bridgman comments on the steps Facebook is taking聽to prevent their platform聽from being misused during the federal election campaign.</p> Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:17:32 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 2636 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/children-youth-technology-policy-centre-media-technology-and-democracy-334974 <p>Over the last year, the Max Bell School's聽<a href="https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com">Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy</a>聽been building out a research program on kids & tech to explore a range of policy implications related to data governance and children's rights, ed-tech, school surveillance, targeted ads, kids content, gender and mental health.</p> <p><a href="https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/projects/children-tech-policy">Learn more about the Centre's innovative research</a>.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:19:04 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2717 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadian-election-misinformation-project-memo-2-333804 <p></p> <p>September聽13, 2021 |聽The聽<a href="https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com">Media Ecosystem Observatory</a>'s聽Canadian Election Misinformation Project recently published a memo on how聽misinformation is fomenting violent protests among those who that vaccines and vaccine mandates, and related policies, are infringing on their civil liberties.</p> <p><a href="https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com/memo-2">Read the memo</a> to learn how this issue shaped the trajectory of the recent election.</p> Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:24:37 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2679 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadian-election-misinformation-project-memo-3-333806 <p></p> <p>September 16, 2021 |聽The聽<a href="https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com">Media Ecosystem Observatory</a>'s聽Canadian Election Misinformation Project's recent memo too a look at the American disinformation landscape, assessing the degree to which it darkest effects have seeped into Canadian society鈥攕pecifically in the context of the 44th Canadian federal election.聽</p> <p><a href="https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com/memo-2">Read the mem</a><a href="https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com/memo-3">o</a>.</p> Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:36:11 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2680 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/mcgill-launches-canadian-election-misinformation-project-332636 <p>August 19, 2021 |聽Mis- and dis-information are a growing threat to the integrity of free and fair elections and to the strength of democracies the world聽over. That is why聽黑料不打烊聽University聽and the聽University聽of Toronto聽are聽announcing the creation of the聽Canadian Election Misinformation聽Project聽to monitor and respond to聽mis- and聽disinformation incidents聽and threats during the聽44th Canadian federal election.</p> <p>Learn more about the project in <a href="http://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-launches-canadian-election-misinformation-project/">this 黑料不打烊 Reporter article</a>.</p> Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:47:54 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2642 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/political-scientist-aengus-bridgman-manipulated-media-and-misinformation-cbc-radio-332987 <p>August 24, 2021 | In this CBC Radio interview,聽Aengus Bridgman, director of the聽<a href="https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com">Canadian Election Misinformation Project</a>, comments聽on manipulated media and misinformation in the ongoing federal election campaign.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/15862220-political-scientist-aengus-bridgman-manipulated-media-misinformation?share=true">Listen to the interview</a>.</p> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:03:02 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2653 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/will-misinformation-be-problem-election-season-cbc-news-332983 <p>August 24, 2021 | Election 44 is underway, and the Media Ecosystem Observatory's Canadian Election Misinformation Project is hard at work tracking election mis- and disinformation. Learn more about the Project in this interview with its director,聽Aengus Bridgman.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1936456259734">Watch the interview</a>.</p> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:12:25 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2652 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/understanding-vaccine-hesitancy-canada-attitudes-beliefs-and-information-ecosystem-327394 <p>December 2020 | This new report by the <a href="/maxbellschool/research/mediaecosystemobservatory">Media Ecosystem Observatory</a>聽looks into vaccine hesitancy in Canada in the lead-up to the development of a vaccine. Key findings included that 65% of Canadians intend to take a vaccine, and that the聽best opportunity to reach those who are unsure is to address important concerns around the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.</p> <p><a href="https://files.cargocollective.com/c745315/meo_vaccine_hesistancy.pdf">Read the report</a>.</p> Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:21:29 +0000 katrine.claassens@mail.mcgill.ca 2302 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/algorithm-gatekeepers-undermine-democracy-and-health-montreal-gazette-323581 <p>August 6, 2020 | Social media and other digital聽platforms have begun to overtake traditional journalism as our primary sources of information. The communications difficulties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have聽demonstrated how this trend will prove to have drastic consequences on the reliability of information in our democracies. Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen co-authored this op-ed with Ben Scott, in which they look at how聽misinformation, disinformation, online hate, state propaganda and partisan news result from our current information ecosystem.</p> Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:32:47 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2095 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/Rare-Moment-of-Cross-Partisan <p>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 long line of research in political science has told us that polarization tends to occur on highly salient topics because partisans 鈥渇ollow the leader.鈥� Elite consensus is thus essential to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.</p> Thu, 21 May 2020 16:24:30 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1956 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/covid-19-pandemic-uniting-canadians-no-other-event-decades-322340 <p><i>Canada's response to the pandemic contrasts markedly with the political partisanship displayed in U.S.</i></p> <p>A new study by researchers from 黑料不打烊 University and the University of Toronto finds a cross-partisan consensus on battling COVID-19 in Canada. Unlike in the U.S., this consensus is fostering broad agreement on the threats posed by the pandemic and the actions necessary to contain it 鈥� all of which is crucial to efforts to fight the virus.</p> Mon, 25 May 2020 15:14:20 +0000 nicholas.salter@mcgill.ca 1963 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/can-ad-boycott-fix-facebooks-hate-speech-problem-cbc-news-323206 <p>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. Will threatening the company's bottom line motivate them into action? Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen goes on the CBC's Front Burner to discuss the propagation of hate speech on social media. Listen in to learn about the ways that platforms can be incentivized to deal with fake news and discriminatory content.</p> Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:40:45 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2051 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/Prospective-Economic-Costs <p>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, citizens have been asked to forego social and economic activity to protect others at a tremendous cost to themselves.</p> Thu, 21 May 2020 16:01:48 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1953 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/Anti-intellectualism-and-Information-Preferences <p>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 which citizens seek out and engage with expert messages regarding COVID-19 is thus of central importance. Anti-intellectualism - the generalized distrust of experts and intellectuals 鈥� is likely to be a dominant factor. This article, co-written by Professor Taylor Owen, investigates the associations between anti-intellectualism and COVID-19 risk perceptions and social distancing compliance.</p> Thu, 21 May 2020 16:11:07 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1954 at /maxbellschool