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'Power abusers' and bots shaped Alberta election discourse, report says
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While LGBTQ+ rights weren’t a major part of election campaigns or leadership debates, posts related to LGBTQ+ issues generated some of the biggest spikes in engagement and online abuse. Perhaps the most worrying outcome of a handful of motivated users and their automated accomplices setting the tone of political conversations is the influence it has on policymakers, she said. The Samara Centre for Democracy report also made recommendations to introduce platform regulations, support legislation that safeguards researchers access to social media data, and raise public awareness about what inauthentic online behaviour and foreign interference could look like.
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