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Meta’s ban on posting links to real news has allowed hyper-partisan misinformation and disinformation to flourish
If Levant wants to play politics, he should do so as a politician and see how well his extreme views go over with voters
The lack of reliable data has enabled media owners to easily bamboozle Ottawa
Hopes for a right-wing makeover of our country have been spiked in just a matter of weeks by Trumpism
A bigger problem is “truth deprivation” from mountains of self-serving media propaganda
It’s no surprise that the Public Policy Forum would have lots of ideas for keeping control of the news in the hands of the rich
Ottawa should enforce the law limiting foreign ownership of newspapers
The end of fact checking on Meta’s US platforms is just another step in the digital giant’s efforts to obliterate reality
The Online News Act under which Google promised to subsidize news media here could be in jeopardy after the next election
A new form of media convergence is intensifying the rivalry between Canada’s dominant telecoms and global digital giants
Outlets that sell editorial space to corporations or even paid propagandists blur the ethical boundaries of journalism
Our news media have been taken over by financiers more concerned with making a profit than with doing good journalism
T he evolution of journalism in the twentieth century was away from hard news aimed at citizens and toward what media critic Ben Bagdikian called “...
After almost a decade in power, Trudeau the Younger is certainly following the same path as his father
Even worse is the chain replacing local content with political and oil propaganda
Sensationalized stories during wartime should always be doubted, if not disregarded
Since Meta blocked links to news on Facebook, there is now little opportunity to counter disinformation on its popular platforms
Edge: BC politics have always been a special brand of Looney Tunes, but recent events have taken the crazy to a new level
It could also diminish what little credibility remains for alt-right media in Canada
The Online Harms Act is the third in a trilogy of fishy laws the Trudeau government has devised to regulate the Internet
The Opposition could reveal themselves as dangerous amateurs with too many missteps
The issue has been unfairly politicized by federal Conservatives salivating at the prospect of axing the public broadcaster
Some media companies have been denied status by Ottawa as a so-called Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization
Postmedia’s strategy is now to collect government handouts, which could put it back in the black
There are better ways of subsidizing news media, as other countries have learned