Concerns over interference, misinformation among posts monitored during election campaign

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From questions over foreign interference and misinformation tactics, to concerns about parties' behaviour and the validity of ballots, Elections Canada's internal social media monitoring reports show the nature of the online concerns about manipulation that the agency kept an eye on in the lead up to, during, and in the days after, the 2019 federal campaign.

The several hundred pages of reports released by Elections Canada show the range in the daily monitoring of online discourse, and reveals what kinds of conversations that the 20 staff doing the monitoring flagged and shared within the agency and with the Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections. In addition to keeping tabs on what was being said in relation to the campaign on various platforms and social networks, the initiative allowed the agency to respond to inaccurate claims online.

In some circumstances the flagged online posts were in relation to a news article, while others were standalone messages on social media or in forums that were deemed to have high engagement numbers. Staff also kept tabs on when discussion around certain topics or issues had increased, decreased, remained consistent, or saw revived interest while monitoring was being conducted.

A considerable number of the posts from social media users were spreading or amplifying misinformation or inaccurate information about the election. It’s unclear whether or not Elections Canada considered these posts malicious in their intent, or simply the case of an uninformed Twitter user sharing entirely unfounded assertions.

 

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