The January 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, demonstrated how online disinformation, amplification and platform algorithms have real-world impacts.
Highlights
Online platforms aren’t designed with children in mind. For example, children are unaware of the risks that recommended content, auto-play and nudges bring to their use of the internet. Do digital spaces need strict design and development guidelines for services that will be used by young people?
Senior Fellow
Heidi Tworek is a CIGI senior fellow and an expert on platform governance, the history of media technologies, and health communications. She is an associate professor of public policy and international history at the University of British Columbia.
Senior Fellow
Suzie Dunn is a senior fellow at CIGI, and a Ph.D. candidate and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law.
Senior Fellow
Blayne Haggart is a CIGI senior fellow and associate professor of political science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada.