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Alex Boyd

Alex Boyd

Reporter at Toronto Star

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Location
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Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • National News

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Canadian right-wing influencer Lauren Southern denies involvement in alleged Russian interference...

Laura Southern insisted she’d been “deceived” by those who’d hired her and that she had total control over the videos she’d made during testimony before a House of Commons committee on Thursday.
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The Russians had money. The Canadian had far-right influencers. The...

A U.S. indictment alleges that two Russians helped funnel millions of dollars into a media company in order to spread misinformation that would benefit Moscow.
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Jordan Peterson’s new online school promises to dispense with ‘woke...

Peterson Academy is a business venture, a thumb of the nose to his previous employer — and the next evolution of the man who is one of Canada's biggest digital
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Trump shooting has set off a flood of conspiracy theories. But you ...

While Republican leaders point fingers at political rivals, left-leaning voices have also joined the fray.
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He made up a conspiracy theory to see how people would respond to i...

The performance artist behind “Birds Aren’t Real” believes that people fall for conspiracy theories because they feel disconnected from society.
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What you learn about conspiracy theories by starting one

The “Birds Aren’t Real” conspiracy theory took Gen Z by storm. Here’s why the founder thinks people are really drawn to misinformation movements.
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When a text spammer offered me a job, I said yes. Here’s what happe...

Canadian victims lost almost $24 million last year to text-based scammers offering job opportunities that seemed too good to be true.
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Pierre Poilievre has been accused of flirting with Diagolon. Here’s...

The question of Poilievre’s ties — real or otherwise — to an extremist online group known as Diagolon are back in the spotlight.
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Shepherd's pie sushi? Green curry lasagna? AI-generated cookbooks s...

There's no question that AI-content is increasingly filling our social media and online shopping feeds, experts say. Cookbooks are a window into how this content has a way of tricking
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Why weird ads about Sophie Trudeau, Howie Mandel — and Mary Berg — ...

They show how easy it is to borrow name recognition of news companies and celebrities and feed false information into the void.
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Why ‘doing your own research’ so often backfires

A study in Nature found that participants who went online to figure out if misinformation was true or not were more likely to believe it. A leading expert called the