Hilary Bloom
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World's okayest librarian, just out here trying my best 📚
In early 2025, the head of Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission warned, “Information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat.”
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How to fight disinformation
Following the Arab Spring uprisings of the early 2010s, there was a flood of optimism about social media’s potential to unleash democracy around the world. “If you want to liberate a society, just giv...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In early 2025, the head of Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission warned, “Information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat.”
magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/spring-...
magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/spring-...
There are just three ingredients in the recipe that could end constitutional democracy as we know it — fear, habituation and what scholar Peter L. Biro calls 'stupidification.' We have the power to save our democracy and defend against backsliding forces.
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May 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
There are just three ingredients in the recipe that could end constitutional democracy as we know it — fear, habituation and what scholar Peter L. Biro calls 'stupidification.' We have the power to save our democracy and defend against backsliding forces.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Reposted by Hilary Bloom
Justin Trudeau - "Perhaps he'd be happier if I accepted all expenses paid trip to Florida to appear at an anti-abortion church...because that's what Pierre Poilievre
allows of his own members...he cannot protect women's rights from the members of his own caucus!"
#cdnpoli #peipoli
allows of his own members...he cannot protect women's rights from the members of his own caucus!"
#cdnpoli #peipoli
November 24, 2024 at 12:07 PM
