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Shoring Up Canada’s Civic Infrastructure:.

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Create a special panel to examine disinformation, hate and free speech issues within the new digital public sphere.Re-introduce a non-criminal remedy to investigate and respond to hate speech and.Require platforms to clearly identify automated social media accounts, known as bots.Subject algorithms to regular audits by independent authorities and make the results publicly available.Create world-leading advertising transparency regulation.

Require that internet companies, like publishers and broadcasters, are legally liable for content appearing in their domains.

Require publishers of content to identify themselves.

Rebuilding Informational Trust and Integrity:.

This report and the options offered up represent an initial attempt to help policy-makers weigh possible policy responses aimed at ensuring the internet remains a force that informs and connects. The internet represents the greatest advance in communications since the printing press, but its consolidation by a handful of giant global companies and the exploitation of its vulnerabilities by individuals and organizations intent on destabilizing our democracy have reversed its early promise and challenged the public interest.

The report, written by PPF President Edward Greenspon and University of British Columbia professor Taylor Owen, offers sets of policy options for governments to consider in responding to the rapid emergence of digital risks to democratic institutions and social cohesion. It contains an analysis of the state of the internet in 2018, particularly as it relates to the relationship among large platform companies, their audiences and democracy. This report flows from a two-day workshop the Public Policy Forum and University of British Columbia organized in April 2018.