Recent acts of mass violence in the U.S. have shone a spotlight on the link between misogyny and extremism across the world, including the birthplace of the incel movement: Canada.

Samantha Reusch is aiming to help young Canadians identify misinformation online because she and her colleagues can't monitor all social media platforms for false information during this fall's campaign.

The editor of a Toronto-based publication was handed the maximum one-year jail sentence on Thursday, August 22, 2019, for promoting hatred against women and Jews.

The Post Millennial is a rising star in Canada’s conservative media scene. But the outlet’s willingness to hire someone with a background working for sites that promoted hate is “disturbing,” said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University. 

In recent weeks and months, yellow vest demonstrations across Canada have frequently attracted far-right extremists and hate groups through their Facebook groups. As Canada's federal election fast approaches ⁠— with all the fierce rhetoric that the campaign is sure to elicit ⁠— real-world consequences, which are already in evidence, could quickly pile up.

A report by the Digital Democracy Project found that Canada doesn't have a huge issue with political echo chambers. However, it did find that reading news doesn't guarantee you'll be well-informed.

In the hours after the tragic mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, far-right social media users turned a three-day old hoax into a full-blown disinformation campaign targeting antifascist activists.

More work is needed to see if the social media platform’s fact-checking project is making the grade, according to a new transparency report.

The Green Party tweeted out the incorrect information Wednesday but corrected it after an inquiry from National Observer.

Whether the threat is coming from Russia, another hostile foreign government or individual bad actors, the success of any election-meddling efforts will depend largely on how Canadians respond to it.

Twitter users responded to the revelation that #TrudeauMustGo was boosted by inauthentic activity with a new hashtag.

A new video by Canada Proud racked up 400,000 views in five days on Facebook, and more than 32,000 on Twitter. It also urged viewers to take up the hashtag #SaveCanada. But experts say that the video doesn't reflect reality.

Much of the activity surrounding the hashtag was actually driven by accounts tweeting at non-human rates, including about two dozen accounts created in the past 48 hours.

Former NHL star Theo Fleury recently tweeted that the former Liberal political adviser had a net worth of $23 million. We traced the disinformation from its murky origins on a listicle website to an apparent network of bots on Twitter.

Five of the six claims director of communications Cameron Ahmad made about the former prime minister on Twitter were at least partially incorrect.