Alex MacIsaac
@aomacisaac.bsky.social
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Research coordinator in democracy + tech at The Samara Centre for Democracy. Living in Halifax, NS.
We put out the first report from our new project "VERIFIED" yesterday looking at the r/Canada Reddit community and particularly how a very small group of users are able to have an outsized influence over a forum viewed by millions of Canadians.
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www.samaracentre.ca/articles/fed...
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Federal Election Report 1: Power Users Dominate the Discussion on r/Canada | Samara Centre for Democracy
We explored the political conversation on Reddit, specifically the largest Canadian subreddit, r/Canada, in the days leading up to the federal election being called.
https://www.samaracentre.ca/articles/federal-election-report-1-power-users-dominate-the-discussion-on-r-canada
7 months ago
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From
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and I for the
@theglobeandmail.com
today: inauthentic behaviour and 'astroturfing' can work to shift and skew political public opinion in online spaces - and we can't know how common and coercive the practice may be.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Is that online outrage youâre seeing really grassroots, or just âastroturfingâ?
Fake engagement, disinformation and co-ordinated manipulation efforts are skewing our understanding of public opinion â and the problem is bigger than we think
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-is-that-online-outrage-youre-seeing-really-grassroots-or-just/
9 months ago
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We have a new SAMbot report out today! This time, we've investigated online engagement and abuse on Twitter surrounding the 2023 Alberta election.
www.samaracentre.ca/sambot-alber...
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Astroturfing and Abuse: The 2023 SAMbot Alberta General Election Report
The Samara Centre for Democracy monitored activity on TwitterÂč during the 2023 Alberta election as part of our SAMbot project, a multi-year machine learning initiative that measures abusive content re...
https://www.samaracentre.ca/sambot-alberta-2023
10 months ago
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