Are Canada’s newsrooms ready to tackle fake news, cyber threats, ‘foreign adversaries’ ahead of 2019 election?

Le Devoir is working with data developers at Polytechnique Montréal to develop an internal tool that can help the newsroom 'have a greater overview of what's happening in social networks' in order to identify viral topics or strange patterns.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, pictured in a Hill scrum. Hill newsrooms are still in the early stages of contending with issues around potential interference during the 2019 election, but as the vote draws closer, a few have signalled they intend to have a game plan to anticipate the spread of misinformation. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

November 19, 2018

Hill newsrooms are still in the early stages of contending with issues around potential interference during the 2019 election, but as the vote draws closer, a few have signalled they intend to have a game plan to anticipate the spread of misinformation.

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