Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

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"Children living in areas with higher rates of inequality had a reduced cortex surface area and altered connections between different areas of the brain, regardless of individual circumstances such as family income and education."

Canada’s white nationalists are organizing. They’re more united than ever. They have a plan. But we can expose them. We have investigations underway that’ll blow the lid off their networks. We need your help. www.antihate.ca/donate

the guaranteed provision of a home for everyone is the only solution to mass homelessness, and this is a basic requirement of a functional society

An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account. A world without journalism is a world without truth. cpj.org/donate #JournalismMatters

For my English followers, this story is wild. How a website that publishes AI-generated articles and read by basically no one managed to infect Google search results *and other AI chatbots* with disinfo about Canadian party leaders' personal wealth.

Elections Canada #democracy #factchecking #criticalthinking electionsanddemocracy.ca/news/electio...

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Highly recommend this. ⬇️

Russian state media targets #MarkCarney. 🇷🇺mounted op after op against Trudeau, but not against #PierrePoilievre. Now why do you suppose that is? 🤔 Sputnik & RT, are key instruments of the Kremlin &🇷🇺 intelligence services, used for information & influence ops targeting Western democracies #CdnDisinfo

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Hey Canada 🇨🇦 here are some products either Made in Canada or are Products of Canada 🇨🇦. Attached are the definition of each, pics of each group (labeled) and a pic of product imported from countries other than the US. Not bad at all. We can do this! #buyCanadian

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Regulation matters

🧵 Here is our response to Meta's decision to end its fact-checking program on Instagram, Facebook & Threads: "Meta is removing measures that mitigate the spread of false, harmful information on their platforms, & social media users will suffer because of it." Read more: bit.ly/MetaFactChec...

🤣 Memes can be funny! But they aren't news... 👍 The number of likes a post has doesn't mean it's legit. Here are 7 basic tips for staying sharp as you scroll ⤵️ 🔗 Download the infographic: bit.ly/7tipsNLP #MediaLiteracy #TlSky

1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works. Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish. We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted. First stop: West Point.

This is a far more important story than many realize. The attacks on national publicly accountable broadcasting is coordinated on the right. I’ll do this 🧵 in 3 parts to avoid being overly long. Part 1: #PierrePoilievre #ElonMusk & the far right disinfo brain-washing ecosystem. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

A self-proclaimed “grassroots” campaign poured over $135,000 into Meta ads denouncing Canada’s carbon tax policy. The same group has ties with the country's largest fossil fuel industry advocacy group and it isn’t acting alone.

How do carbon taxes affect food prices? In our latest paper, @dr_jen_winter and I analyze both direct and indirect impacts across the entire food supply chain: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5024885 It's the most detailed exploration of CTaxes and food yet! 🤓 #cdnecon #cdnpoli

100s of people are signed up to learn bystander intervention with me on November 26 @ 11am EST! Your camera/mic are muted and the chat is closed, so it's low pressure and you're never on the spot. But it's super interactive and you leave with 5 practical tools to intervene. Join us!

If you're keen to learn content verification for fact-checking and open source investigations, this is a step-by-step guide on how to verify images and videos that I posted a while ago. Once you familiarise yourself with reverse search, you'll become much better at spotting online misinformation.

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