How do you know what’s real online? A guide to spotting disinformation during an election campaign
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This election campaign, your feeds will be filled with more content than ever designed to influence how you think, engage and vote. From AI deep fakes, to bots it’s hard to know what’s real. It doesn’t help when Meta has that ban on Canadian news sites — you can’t just click through to the verified news sources. Today we learned how to check on whether something is fake or not (Matthew Johnson and Brian McQuinn) and we also talked about the strain it can cause on relationships (Kara Fletcher).