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Taylor Owen on Uniform Social Media Regulations

webfull — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:38:10 +0000

September 6, 2024 | Taylor Owen spoke about the online harms of social media and how having uniform social media regulations enforced across all digital platforms, can help with the online governance on The Star.

Published: 9 September 2024

Expert: Instagram cracks down on teen sextortion

webfull — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:29:40 +0000

Instagram is aiming to make it harder for potential scammers and criminals to coerce teens into sending nude photos and extort them for money. The company announced on Thursday it is testing new features to curb an alarming trend called financial sextortion, which often targets kids and teenagers. (CNN)

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Published: 11 April 2024

We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time | The Globe and Mail

webfull — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:31:34 +0000

October 20, 2023 | This opinion piece by Taylor Owen talks about the reasoning behind why he decided to take a break from X, formerly Twitter, a platform he has been using as a gateway to information for over a decade.

He said "the platform is now broken. Where it once filtered valuable information about the world in a timely manner, it is now calibrated to anger and extremes under the ownership of a spiteful billionaire clearly caught in an ideological rabbit hole."

Published: 24 October 2023

Curbing Online Harms | CBC Radio

webfull — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:14:11 +0000

June 20, 2022 | With the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression's new report hot off the press, Commission co-chair and Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen sat down for an interview with CBC Radio to discuss the recommendations on curbing online harm that he and his colleagues have proposed.

Listen to the interview.

Published: 23 June 2022

Whose speech will Elon Musk’s Twitter be protecting, exactly? | Globe and Mail

webfull — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:08:47 +0000

April 27, 2022 | Taylor Owen and Supriya Dwivedi of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy write that Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter might strengthen the democratic governance that social media companies have fought against.

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Published: 28 April 2022

Education PhD Candidate Stephanie Zito wins Principal's Prize for Public Engagement

webfull — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:29:35 +0000

Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier has announced the 2022 winners of the Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. Stephanie Zito, a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, was announced as the winner of the Prize for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows for her work in using socia

Published: 21 April 2022

Screen Time Podcast from the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy

webfull — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:56:34 +0000

March 25, 2022 | Screen Time podcast is an eight-episode podcast miniseries that explores the rapidly evolving relationship between kids and technology. Co-hosted by Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen, who also directs the School's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, Catch up on the first three episodes:

Published: 25 March 2022

Evaluating the state of the Platform Governance agenda | Schwartz Reisman Institute

webfull — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:44:47 +0000

February 11, 2022 | As part of the Schwartz Reisman Institute's Seminar Series, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen delivered a presentation on the regulatory frameworks governments are putting in place to mitigate the potential negative impacts of digital ecosystems, including Big Tech social media platforms.

Watch the seminar.

Published: 18 February 2022

CMHR to host virtual symposium on online hate | Winnipeg Sun

webfull — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:21:20 +0000

November 8, 2021 | Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen recently spoke at a virtual symposium hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. “We’ve had this experience where everybody needs to know similar things and trust similar institutions, and even behave in similar ways, (like) taking a vaccine. It’s difficult because antivax content and misinformation about the vaccine, and about the pandemic itself, has been incentivized to circulate far and wide.”

Published: 9 November 2021

Expert: Whistleblower Frances Haugen says Facebook making online hate worse

webfull — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:22:54 +0000

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told British lawmakers that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to fix the problems, providing strong momentum for efforts by European governments working on stricter regulation of tech giants. While her testimony echoed much of what she told the U.S. Senate earlier this month, her appearance drew intense interest from a British parliamentary committee that is much further along in drawing up legislation to crack down on social platforms.

Published: 27 October 2021

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