Experts welcome Rouleau’s call to combat misinformation, say ‘whole-of-society approach’ needed

The current information landscape is a feedback loop where 'you come for the ideology, and you stay despite the science-free lunacy,’ says health misinformation expert Timothy Caulfield.
One of Justice Paul Rouleau's 56 recommendations in the Public Order Emergency Commission report calls on governments to address the 'serious challenges' of misinformation, disinformation, and online harms.

A Rouleau report recommendation calling on governments to better address the spread of misinformation and disinformation is “absolutely necessary” following the convoy protests, with the polarized online space causing “grave harm,” says a law professor who studies th...

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