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.
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.
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.