Canada could soon see stricter rules to tackle disinformation, hate speech and other harmful content on social media and online platforms.

Earlier this month, a Canada's National Observer investigation uncovered links between a half-dozen self-professed grassroots Facebook pages across the country and Canada Proud founder Jeff Ballingall, a prominent right-wing political strategist, and his associates. Here's a quick guide for those who want to figure out who is running political ads on their community Facebook pages.

Helping Canadians protect themselves from misinformation will require stricter transparency rules for political advertisers on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, experts say. 

A Canada's National Observer investigation has uncovered a network of at least a half-dozen self-professed grassroots Facebook pages linked to one of Canada's top right-wing communications strategists and his associates. Here's how.

A Canada’s National Observer investigation has found ads run by at least a half-dozen supposedly local Facebook pages are linked to one of Canada's top right-wing communications strategists and his associates.

Given the resistance of far-right bases to logic, morality, and reason, however, it seems unlikely that Goldy’s financial wrongdoings will do much, if anything, to alienate her supporters, writes Luke Ottenhof.

The escalating nature of these threats is setting off alarm bells among those who study violent extremism, writes Caroline Orr.

While vaccines and mask policies are viewed favorably by most Canadians, the vocal minority who oppose them are a growing threat — not only to public health, but to public safety and even democracy itself. 

Disinformation had already played an enormous role in the 2016 Brexit vote and in the U.S. presidential election held the same year. Canadian authorities were issuing warnings, but no one knew how the federal vote would play out.

There’s a simple step that social media companies could take to make it easier to identify harmful coronavirus misinformation — but three months into the outbreak, they’re still not doing it.

Arrest of former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Mathews by the FBI and his reported plans to engage in an armed standoff in Virginia reflects a startling trend among far-right extremists of using social media to coordinate activities and training,

Canadian Army reservist, Patrik Mathews, arrested in the US by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Mathews has ties to a violent neo-Nazi group.

Canada's competition watchdog is looking into a complaint about the data-harvesting practices of the main federal political parties.

An internal memo obtained by National Observer shows the government misunderstood the platform, which spread misinformation ahead of the federal vote in October.

Memes are a major source of disinformation, but a new study shows they are often slipping under the radar on social media.