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How Fear & Conflict Manipulate You

Fear and conflict are effective behavioural drivers. Conflict increases leader approval ratings, while fear drives…

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This piece draws from a talk delivered at the Canadian Public Relations Society’s annual conference…

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On 15 February 2019, the Young Transatlantic Initiative and the General Delegation of the Government…

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Disinformation, Persuasion, and the Information Environment

At the 2018 RightsCon conference in Toronto, we had the opportunity to test an experimental…

Participatory Propaganda and the 2018 Ontario Election

Two “grassroots” political Facebook pages outstripped official party pages in follower engagement during the 2018…

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