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A Vancouver radio reporter says people on social media, including a vocal British politician, should be more careful about spreading fake news.

The government of Canada has been increasing its use of paid Facebook advertisements over the last three years, spending tens of millions of dollars on boosted posts, videos and ad campaigns, new figures tabled in Parliament show.

Canada and it G7 partners warned the world's biggest internet companies on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, to do a better job of deleting "vile" material from their platforms and dangled the threat of forcing them if they fall short.

Google, Facebook and Twitter are facing criticism for providing a platform for false information to spread, potentially impacting the last U.S. election that saw Donald Trump elected as president.

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould caught up with National Observer only days before she is scheduled to take her maternity leave — becoming the first cabinet minister in Canadian history to do so.

This was the year that transformed Donald Trump from buffoon candidate into president of the United States and sent the globe careening toward the precipice over which it now teeters. It was the year the world began to comprehend how deeply Russian propaganda has penetrated the American psyche. They used a wholly unexpected and lethal weapon — our own irresistible addiction to the Internet.

Ten days after a news report falsely claimed that two mosques in Quebec had asked women workers to be removed from a nearby construction site, TVA Nouvelles has released a follow-up, fact-checking story as a "gesture of respect."

Facebook has launched partnerships with journalism outlets like National Observer and media literacy groups like MediaSmarts to help stop the viral spread of fake news.

Canada's foreign minister was warned in briefing notes about how "information warfare" was "making people receptive to new ‘truths’ by making them uncertain about what they used to believe."

One month into her new job as Canada's Governor General, Julie Payette is taking on fake news and bogus science.

Facebook has introduced a new "cyber hygiene" guide. But the social media giant and the federal government both admit much more needs to be done to safeguard the 2019 election.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin examines why some people don't buy into climate change, what that means for media, and why U.S. reporters seem to love Canada's prime minister.

Conservative MP Kerry Diotte called Progress Alberta a “fake news outfit" in a now-deleted tweet.

From dressing up as the Grim Reaper to suggesting children could soon be smoking pot out of toaster ovens, Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu isn't afraid to stand out.

A group representing print and digital media publishers is calling on the federal government to set up a $350 million fund to support journalism in Canada.