Public Policy Forum to track online disinformation
Media | 11/29/2018 3:13 pm EST
Ottawa-based think tank the Public Policy Forum says it’s launching a new project to track, analyze and eventually find a way to counter "fake news."
It’s digital democracy project will start by studying the effects of disinformation through commissioned research and journalism in the lead-up to the next federal election, the think tank said in a press release this week. Concerns have been stirring that Canada might be a target of foreign actors when Canadians go to the polls next year.
Public Policy Forum president Edward Greenspon said his group’s previous research has shown that
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