Facebook is no longer fun and games

I fear for the future of public discourse if the political agenda is set by the ignorant and the vandals, not the knowledgeable and the civilized. We can’t let democracy become another casualty of the internet.

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald was toppled by protestors in Montreal on Aug. 29. The flood of online propaganda and extremist views, whether from the right or left, is disheartening, writes Andrew Caddell.Screenshot courtesy of CBC News

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

September 2, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The internet flummoxes me. As I have written before, when I was in journalism school in 2000, we speculated on the influence of the internet on conventional media. We know now that it has had a devastating impact on newspaper advertising...

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