fake news

The Trump-style drive to undermine confidence in the press has made its way to Canada. And it’s showing signs of success

Opinion: As technology advances, we will need a rigorous knowledge of history more than ever. But that’s now under assault—and things will get worse in 2018

Opinion: Governments and citizens should consider the lack of oversight into how tech companies shape speech rights

Scott Gilmore: Public confidence in media, business, government and other institutions is already at an all-time low. New technology is set to make truth even harder to discern.

Facebook admits it responded to ‘information operations’ during the 2016 election. Will the site ever rid itself of distorted information?

Facebook is rolling out a new feature to help Canadian users think critically about news, but it’s not clear the company can it fix the mess of ‘fake news’ it helped create

Terry Glavin traces Moscow’s “Nazi-grandfather” calumny through a maze of cranks, propagandists and Putin fanciers—to Canada’s mainstream media

The scene was dangerously overcrowded and America’s President-elect was irritable, long on rant and short on revelation

Leitch’s campaign manager calls it ‘Operation Flytrap’—his plan to root out anyone joining the Tories just to oppose his candidate

Jaime Weinman spent a week steeping himself in a world flush with fake news. Here’s what he learned.

Facebook once promised to bring the world closer together. It is indeed ironic that Facebook is now at risk of driving us even further apart.

As the stakes in politics skyrocket, both here and in the U.S., we all need to be better readers