A new coalition is monitoring the overlap of climate denial with other conspiracy theories online, and one of its founders says Canada is not immune from this new “wave of disinformation.”
Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what’s real and what’s fake or misleading online, experts say.
Conspiracy theories, including those propagated by the once-fringe QAnon movement, have gained traction as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels fear, social and economic insecurity, and mistrust in authorities, experts in Canada say.
In conversation with Canada’s National Observer on Thursday evening, Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein flagged a tangential result of the past four years of Donald Trump: a deluge of hard-hitting, gobsmacking investigative journalism, Luke Ottenhof writes.
Tens of thousands of the 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump showed up on his doorstep on Saturday, November 14, 2020, urging on the president in his quixotic bid to subvert the results of last week's election.
'Trump has now entirely and completely distanced himself from the rule of law,' national affairs columnist Sandy Garossino warns. And amidst a it's not just the White House at stake.