Foreign influence registry gives journalists a ‘limited’ tool against ‘clandestine’ threat: national security expert Dan Stanton

The question of whether reporters will need to be counted in the new database also ‘gets at the debate over who is and isn’t a journalist,' says former Carleton Journalism School director Chris Waddell.
Foreign influence commissioner Anton Boegman is 'off to a good start' managing expectations of his office, but the registry won't be a 'supercomputer' for transparency, says former CSIS executive manager Dan Stanton.

As Canada’s first foreign influence transparency commissioner attempts to manage expectations over his office’s newly launched public registry, observers say it provides journalists with a new tool—and greater responsibility—to safeguard their reporting against forei...

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