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Why Canadians need to take digital disinformation seriously

By flooding social media platforms with false information, it makes it harder to know what to believe, particularly for users with lower digital literacy skills, and it can have negative effects on people’s faith in their government and democratic systems.

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BY KYLE MATTHEWS AND LAUREN SALIM
March 29, 2021

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