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The federal privacy watchdog and some of his global counterparts are urging the largest social media companies to prevent bulk extraction of personal details from their websites.

Finland’s media literacy education stretches beyond standard K-12 streams. Government agencies like KAVI work with 1,000 organizations — from news media to NGOs — to bring media literacy education to all citizens and in different formats. 

Online game Breaking Harmony Square acts like a vaccine against misinformation in hopes that next time people encounter such manipulation in the real world, they’ll recognize it for what it is.

Much of the activity surrounding the hashtag was actually driven by accounts tweeting at non-human rates, including about two dozen accounts created in the past 48 hours.

Canada's political conversations on Twitter are overrun by bots and other inauthentic activity, according to a leading social-media researcher, who warns that the activity being detected may be "the canary in the coal mine" when it comes to online manipulation.

PC party leader Doug Ford’s Twitter messages are often amplified from a small army of hyper-partisan, largely anonymous accounts that publish with inhuman frequency. They make his @fordnation pronouncements appear more popular than they are, say some observers.

An industry ad to amplify pro-pipeline perspectives is just one example of how the online conversation around the troubled Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is, increasingly, being pushed to its edges by actors on both sides of the debate. Casual opinion polls and social media platforms are open battlegrounds as messages spread quickly and debate become increasingly polarized.