3 sneaky ways you could be influenced this election

With little regulation and a massive active audience, social media is a hotbed for information manipulation during an election. CBC’s Farah Nasser goes to the Media Ecosystem Observatory to find out what to watch for in your feed in the weeks ahead.

00:00 An information war unlike any other
00:50 Inflated Facebook groups
03:20 Manipulated and AI-generated images
04:35 Bots that don’t sound like bots

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