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How Canada is preventing social media from interfering in elections

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By Sara Bannerman, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, McMaster University. Some of the Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) The clock is ticking. The Ontario provincial election will be held in three months, in June 2018;…



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