Election has been mostly free of mis- and disinformation, research shows
(WorldNews Canada)

TORONTO — Canada’s election has so far been “largely clean” but misinformation and disinformation may start emerging during the final week of the campaign, a researcher warns. The Digital Democracy Project, an initiative from the Public Policy Forum and McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, collaborated with New York University’s Center for Cybersecurity to look at ads on Facebook during the first several weeks of the election. Laura Edelson, a researcher with the NYU centre’s Online Political Transparency Project, said there has so far been no evidence of...