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Algorithm 'gatekeepers' undermine democracy and health | Montreal Gazette
Published: 10 August 2020
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. Read on see what聽policies聽democratic governments will need to adopt in order to regulate聽our digital public sphere.
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