/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/1932/all en /maxbellschool/channels/news/fake-news-preys-emotions-expert-warns-300914 <p>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 ƻ����Ժ and the co-creator of the Digital Democracy Project, says fake news often preys on feelings like anger and fear.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1584564291585/">Listen to the Interview</a></p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:50:52 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1597 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadians-media-consumption-habits-lead-misinformation-study-finds-300912 <p>August 7, 2019 | Canadians aren’t 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.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/08/07/news/canadians-media-consumption-habits-lead-misinformation-study-finds">Read the Article</a></p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:58 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1596 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadian-polarized-social-media-use-likely-not-culprit-study-300916 <p>September 12, 2019 | Social media might not be to blame for Canadians’ ideological polarization, a new report on digital democracy in Canada finds. “A lot of people don’t use social media very actively,” said Eric Merkley, a researcher on the project. “People on Twitter are not representative of the broader population.”</p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:59:26 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1599 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/19-million-canadians-have-had-their-data-breached-eight-months-300915 <p>September 2, 2019 | An estimated 19 million Canadians have been affected by data breaches between November 2018 and June 2019, according to numbers obtained by "Attention Control with Kevin Newman," a new podcast that launched Monday. The numbers come from 446 breaches that were reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Victims of these kinds of data breaches are vulnerable to identity theft, financial crime, even violence in some cases.   </p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:55:09 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1598 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/taylor-owen-deepfakes-cbc-national-304112 <p>January 7, 2020 | There are serious concerns about how Facebook will police deepfake videos. Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen talks about why these sophisticated videos need editorial oversight.</p> Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:44:56 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1731 at /maxbellschool