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Phaedra de Saint-Rome 5/10/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 5/10/23

McGill to host assembly of Canadian youth in Winnipeg to develop policy recommendations on online safety

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 5/7/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 5/7/23

Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, joins McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy

Haugen will support the Centre’s research and public engagement on online safety policy, youth digital rights, and data transparency.

Photo by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 3/15/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 3/15/23

Quebec Election Misinformation Project - Executive Summary

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 3/15/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 3/15/23

L'Université McGill publie ses conclusions sur la désinformation lors des dernières élections provinciales au Québec

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 2/23/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 2/23/23

Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy comments on Google’s decision to block news for some Canadians

Press release

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 2/3/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 2/3/23

Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy Comments on Heritage Online Harms Report

Press release

MTD Media Tech & Democracy 1/16/23 MTD Media Tech & Democracy 1/16/23

Digital Policy Rounds #2: Climate Justice, Media and Technology

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 1/11/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 1/11/23

Canada can’t be complacent about threats to our democracy (Monitor)

Supriya Dwivedi & Phaedra de Saint-Rome

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 1/11/23 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 1/11/23

Stop prioritizing the profits of Big Tech over the mental and physical health of our kids (Toronto Star)

Supriya Dwivedi

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 12/20/22 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 12/20/22

How To Fix Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (Tech Policy Press)

Sonja Solomun & Christelle Tessono

MTD Media Tech & Democracy 12/19/22 MTD Media Tech & Democracy 12/19/22

Digital Policy Rounds #1: Polarization and Radicalization

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 11/17/22 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 11/17/22

“Canada’s democracy is under threat. Journalists must do more to protect it” (TVO)

Supriya Dwivedi

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 11/9/22 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 11/9/22

Taylor Owen testifies before House of Commons Committee: C-18

Director Taylor Owen testifies before Canada’s House of Commons on the Online News Act

Phaedra de Saint-Rome 11/9/22 Phaedra de Saint-Rome 11/9/22

The Online News Act keeps journalism alive while it adapts to a new world

Over the last decade, as the business of journalism has gone through substantial decline, governments around the world have struggled to develop policies to support them. The most polarizing idea to date has been the idea of forcing platforms and publishers into forced arbitration (Taylor Owen).

Photo by Timothy Hales Bennett via Unsplash.

MTD Media Tech & Democracy 11/2/22 MTD Media Tech & Democracy 11/2/22

AI Oversight, Accountability and Protecting Human Rights: Comments on Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act

This report is a collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers from the Cybersecure Policy Exchange at Toronto Metropolitan University, McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.