Aengus Bridgman

Directeur associé, recherche

Aengus Bridgman is the Director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory and an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. He is one of Canada’s leading experts on misinformation, digital activism, and the politics of digital media. His work has been published in The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Experimental Political Science, Party Politics, The Misinformation Review, Frontiers in Political Science, and The Canadian Journal of Political Science and featured in The New York Times, CBC, the Washington Post, the Post Millennial, Vox, La Presse, Radio-Canada, Le Devoir, and many others.

Aengus Bridgman

Directeur associé, recherche

Publications

The News Canadians Actually See: Redefining Political Information in the Digital Age

Online Harms AI Audit: Technical Brief

Online Harms AI Audit: Policy Memo

Facebook's News Slop Economy: Inside a foreign-run AI content-farm network monetizing fake news across Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe

Slopaganda: The Inauthentic YouTube Network Selling Secession to Albertans

Audit des nouvelles par l'IA : comment les modèles d'IA utilisent et diffusent le journalisme canadien

Bilan d'incident : les répercussions de l'assassinat de Charlie Kirk sur l'écosystème canadien de l'information

Changement de pouvoir : l'ascension des influenceurs politiques au Canada

Projet sur l'écosystème informationnel de l'élection de la Colombie-Britannique : rapport final

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights

L'écosystème canadien de l'information durant l'élection fédérale de 2025

The Sources and Response to Scams Using AI and Fake News Websites

Social Media Platforms Host and Profit from Scams Using AI and Fake News Websites

Pour le meilleur et pour le pire : l'évolution de l'écosystème canadien de l'information

Can-PolNews: A Multi-Platform Dataset of Political Discourse in Canada

Le financement russe d'influenceurs politiques américains et canadiens

British Columbia Election Information Ecosystem Project: Baseline Report

July 2024: Canadian Interest in American News & Politics

August 3 Bot Activity on X Related to Rally in Kirkland Lake

Vieilles nouvelles, nouvelle réalité : un an de blocage des nouvelles de Meta au Canada

June 2024: State of Engagement with News Outlets

Flame Wars: Misinformation and Wildfire in Canada's Climate Conversation

May 2024: Canadian Information Ecosystem Snapshot

When Journalism is Turned Off: The Information Ecosystem in Local News Deserts in Canada

Indistinct Information Habitats: Information and Attitudes in the 2023 Alberta Election

The Canadian Information Ecosystem

The Role of Social Media in Polarizing Canadians

Analyse du rôle de la mésinformation lors de l'élection provinciale québécoise de 2022

Quebec Election Misinformation Project: Executive Summary

Mis- and Disinformation during the 2021 Canadian Federal Election

All in this together: deservingness of government aid during the COVID-19 pandemic

Public Health Communication and Engagement on Social Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: Understanding the role of news and social media

Lessons in Resilience: Canada's Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election

A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus: Elite and Public Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada

Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: attitudes, beliefs, and the information ecosystem

Research Memo #7: The Partisan Playground

Research Memo #6: Political Advertising

Research Memo #5: Fact-Checking, Blackface and the Media

Research Memo #4: Talking Past Each Other on Immigration

Research Memo #3: Polarization and its Discontents

Research Memo #2: The Climate Change Conundrum

Research Memo #1: Media, Knowledge and Misinformation