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From Evidence for Democracy
On 28 January 2025, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue held a press conference on the Foreign Interference Commission’s final report, where she identified misinformation as the single greatest existential threat to Canadian democracy. Our research team at Evidence for Democracy carried out a broad review of the state of misinformation in Canada, and what we can do to rebuild public trust in Canada’s democracy.

"Das fotografische und filmische Zeugnis, einst der Goldstandard der Dokumentation in Journalismus, Wissenschaft und Justiz, droht seinen Wert zu verlieren. Wenn jedes Bild manipuliert sein kann, stirbt der Beweis." | Florian Harms auf T-Online | "Überlebensfrage für die Demokratie": Massenhafter KI-Betrug in ganz Deutschland | #KI

I've now had AI bots impersonate high-profile people I know and engage me in a DM chat that was initially passable on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Be careful out there folks. And if the account is new with few followers, that's a big tell.
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Misinformation and disinformation continue to shape public debate in Canada, erode trust in institutions, and put pressure on our democratic systems.
On Tuesday, February 24, from 12 to 1 pm ET, Evidence for Democracy is hosting a public webinar to unpack the findings of our new report, The Misinformation Challenge: Rebuilding Trust in a Post-Truth World.

This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Years ago, I went to Olympia to lobby on behalf of a nonprofit healthcare provider where I served on the Board. I didn't know legislators by name or districts by number back then and I just assumed from talking to him that Jamie Pedersen was a Republican.

Iran, Irak, whatever (it takes). Sicherlich gibt es da Massenvernichtungswaffen oder irgendwas... juckt das eigentlich noch wen? Also wir haben da jetzt Krieg und ihr müsst unsere Demokratie dort verteidigen oder so...

The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835