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PC party leader Doug Ford’s Twitter messages are often amplified from a small army of hyper-partisan, largely anonymous accounts that publish with inhuman frequency. They make his @fordnation pronouncements appear more popular than they are, say some observers.

Canada and it G7 partners warned the world's biggest internet companies on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, to do a better job of deleting "vile" material from their platforms and dangled the threat of forcing them if they fall short.

An industry ad to amplify pro-pipeline perspectives is just one example of how the online conversation around the troubled Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is, increasingly, being pushed to its edges by actors on both sides of the debate. Casual opinion polls and social media platforms are open battlegrounds as messages spread quickly and debate become increasingly polarized.

For years, Megan Boler's research focused on the power of social media as a democratizing force, giving voice to the voiceless and empowering everyday people to come together and participate more meaningfully in how they are governed.

This was the year that transformed Donald Trump from buffoon candidate into president of the United States and sent the globe careening toward the precipice over which it now teeters. It was the year the world began to comprehend how deeply Russian propaganda has penetrated the American psyche. They used a wholly unexpected and lethal weapon — our own irresistible addiction to the Internet.

An editor at Oxford Dictionaries in the United Kingdom has sent an encouraging response to a six-year-old Victoria boy who created a buzz by inventing a word.

Canada's foreign minister was warned in briefing notes about how "information warfare" was "making people receptive to new ‘truths’ by making them uncertain about what they used to believe."

Citizens in the West must continue standing up for minority rights in order to help fight off the forces trying to destabilize democracies around the world, Hillary Clinton said on Oct. 23, 2017.

After the oaths, cannons outside the Parliament Building crashed out a 21-gun salute, which could be heard inside.

One of the first things Julie Payette will do after being installed as the Queen's representative in Canada is open an Instagram account.

P.K. Subban is widely regarded as one of the most entertaining players in the NHL, and he has the Twitter followers to prove it.

Solnit’s series of essays examines rape culture, the role of men in feminism and female silence with a fierceness that made me wish I’d read her work much sooner.

Security and justice officials from the Five Eyes countries plan to explore "more timely and detailed" information sharing to detect terrorists and extremist fighters.

It’s all over Twitter and even the creator of Harry Potter said the exchange validates the existence of the social media platform.

A careful analysis of his tweets and speeches lead to only one conclusion. The "many people" who Donald Trump is referring to are just the many voices in his head.