The Public Policy Forum today released a new report on polarization in Canada that makes the case that the country is not immune to the corrosive forces sweeping democracies worldwide.  

Our competition authorities have focused too narrowly on economic factors, neglecting the importance of editorial diversity.

The Online News Act (Bill C-18) is now law, and absolutely everyone has described it poorly and created confusion about what it's actually all about. I talk with McGill University's Taylor Owen about the aims of the legislation and how we should be thinking of it. Let's talk #cdnpoli.

An academic has analysed Google and Facebook's payments to news publishers.

In its first direct response to threats from big tech platforms promising to retaliate against the Liberals’ controversial online news law, the federal government announced Wednesday it would halt all advertising on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.

“The whole world is looking at Canada right now,” says Michaël Nguyen, president of Quebec’s Professional Federation of Journalists, as several Canadian governments decided to pull their ads from Meta platforms on Wednesday. Diona Macalinga reports.

Supriya Dwivedi discusses the latest moves by Canada to put pressure on Meta and Google in the standoff over C-18.

In 2021 she shone a light on misinformation and online harm. Now she’s “extremely worried” about Big Tech’s impact on the 2024 US election.

The Liberals can solve the ongoing impasse with Meta and Google by making the Big Tech platforms pay into a fund for news outlets, Konrad von Finckenstein says

Big changes could be coming to the way Google and Meta let you access news on their platforms. We provide answers to the big questions around the decisions.

Move by the search giant comes in response to Ottawa's efforts to support Canadian media, which has struggled to survive after ad revenue moved to the tech giants.

The government’s online news legislation became law this week likely setting off a summer-long staring contest between two tech titans and Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez.

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Taylor Owen, a McGill University professor and leading scholar on the media, internet and public policy, about Bill C-18 (the Online News Act) as well as broader policy trends with respect to the internet, social media, and how we access and consume information.

The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy is helping to shape the debate about the governance of online platforms

Two years after her bombshell disclosures cratered any claim of integrity Facebook had left, Haugen is out with a memoir. In conversation with Vanity Fair, Haugen discusses life after whistleblowing, her plan for Ralph Nader–ing our way to getting platform accountability, and the technical details that we should all be familiar with—if we still want a say in our digital reality.

She has been on the cover of Time and U.S. president Joe Biden cited her during his State of the Union address last year. Now Frances Haugen is joining McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy as its new senior-fellow-in-residence.

Some Canadians will soon be restricted from accessing news on Facebook and Instagram, as Meta runs tests in response to Bill C-18

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaking with Taylor Owen, director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, at a Vancouver Public Library event Monday.

In government, ‘everybody's talking about’ artificial intelligence, but ‘nobody knows quite what to do,’ said Daniel Araya of CIGI.

The U.S. surgeon general is warning there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for children and teens — and is calling on tech companies, parents and caregivers to take “immediate action to protect kids now.”