That "grey zone" you mentioned is the biggest problem in Ottawa right now. I read the transcripts from the parliamentary committee studying the Canada Elections Act. The officials admitted the law is built to police paid ads. It has almost no power over regular social media posts. That leaves the door wide open for the "mass-produced narratives" you described. We are trying to stop AI speed with paper-era rules.
Get Fact, created by our Canadian neighbors, checks statements at their point of creation, before algorithms scale misinformation. Because the objective is to add friction for falsehoods not patch in damage control afterwards. Verification protects information accuracy for our elections, markets and social wellbeing.
Love how this frames misinformation as infrastructure failure rather than just bad content. The upstream verification approach is the right call since by the time fact checks roll out the damage is already baked in. I've seen how algorithims prioritize emotion over accuracy, and once something spreads its almost impossible to contain regardless of wether its true.
That "grey zone" you mentioned is the biggest problem in Ottawa right now. I read the transcripts from the parliamentary committee studying the Canada Elections Act. The officials admitted the law is built to police paid ads. It has almost no power over regular social media posts. That leaves the door wide open for the "mass-produced narratives" you described. We are trying to stop AI speed with paper-era rules.
Get Fact, created by our Canadian neighbors, checks statements at their point of creation, before algorithms scale misinformation. Because the objective is to add friction for falsehoods not patch in damage control afterwards. Verification protects information accuracy for our elections, markets and social wellbeing.
Love how this frames misinformation as infrastructure failure rather than just bad content. The upstream verification approach is the right call since by the time fact checks roll out the damage is already baked in. I've seen how algorithims prioritize emotion over accuracy, and once something spreads its almost impossible to contain regardless of wether its true.
Here are links to multiple documents on misinformation, disinformation and malinformation from a variety of sources:
Marwick et al (2017) Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online EXECSUM.pdf
Source: https://datasociety.net/library/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/
Marwick et al (2017) Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online.pdf
Source: https://datasociety.net/library/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/
RAND-RR4373z3-Chinese-Disinformation-Efforts-on-Social-Media-2021.pdf
Source: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4373z3.html
RAND-RR4373z2-Russian-Disinformation-Efforts-on-Social-Media-2022.pdf
Source: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4373z2.html
RAND-RR4373z1-Combating Foreign Disinformation on Social Media-2021.pdf
Source: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4373z1.html
Weapons-of-Info-Warfare-2025.05.11.pdf
Source: https://cpd.gov.ua/en/manuals/handbook-weapons-of-information-warfare/
PDF: https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D4D1FAQHelqibAQY-qQ/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/B4DZhRWMhuHsAc-/0/1753711449388
Georgiadou et al (2018) Fake News and Critical Thinking in Information Evaluation.pdf
Source: https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/87qxy
PDF: https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/download/4de629ebfef200b8ff27cbe22a8f3e1812325cd8b4a190254a29e7fd07c28a2f/657701/BIHAC%202018%20Georgiadou%20et%20al%20submitted%20FINAL-mb%20%281%29.pdf