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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #1 - Media, knowledge and misinformation
This is the first report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. The goal of this report is to provide an initial snapshot of the Canadian political media ecosystem...
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #7 - the partisan playground
This report paints a picture of a media environment where partisans are more willing to share their views and choose media that reinforces their beliefs, while less-partisan Canadians are less inclined to share their views and take part in political life.
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #3 - Polarization and its Discontents
This is the third report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. This report explores the level of polarization in Canada across different media platforms.
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #4 - Talking Past Each Other on Immigration
This is the fourth report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. This report explores how Canadians perceive immigration and which media sources they obtain their information on immigration...
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #5 - Fact-checking, blackface and the media
This is the fifth report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. This report explores Canadian's opinions on the importance of fact-checking news stories and discusses how information concerning...
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Lessons in resilience: Canada's digital media ecosystem and the 2019 election
Researchers, policy-makers and the public at large are paying more attention to the threats that disinformation and other forms of online media manipulation pose to democratic institutions and political life. Coming after a number of international elections where disinformation was a serious problem, the authors...
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #6 - political advertising
The Digital Democracy Project team worked with the Online Political Transparency Project at New York University, to analyze the Canadian election advertising landscape on Facebook. This survey report outlines some of the findings.