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Jaigris Hodson

@jhodson.bsky.social
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Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"After users publicly endorse one conspiracy theory, their risk of endorsing another rises..." "...narrative adoption shifts a user’s belief system" "Social exposure brings conspiracy theories to users, but adoption changes what becomes easier to adopt next" Rabbit Holes arxiv.org/html/2607.19...
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 17/07/2026
Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Cindy Blackstock of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is questioning why Ottawa is shopping around its own plan to end discrimination against First Nations Children. She addressed Chiefs in assembly in Ottawa on Wednesday. www.aptnnews.ca?p=291511
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Canada ignoring First Nations child welfare plan: Caring Society
The Caring Society is questioning why the federal government is "shopping around" its own child welfare plan when a First Nations-led plan exists.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I tried telling people exactly this. It does not work. We are in lizard brain zone with this stuff and I am afraid it’s too late. People have told me they’d rather have the cia track their kids than give up the “control” of tracking their loved ones. Can’t argue with that.
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Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Great panel this morning @socialmediaandsociety.org! Panellists discussed algorithms, AI, and info operations
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Now that this is settled, just release the Epstein files.
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elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
People 💙 I Michael Wolff says it the best about Trump’s mad man incoherent rants at the UN !! The Media needs to skew him over the nonsensical 💩 that he spews !! It’s time for them to declare no confidence and remove him !! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/09/2025
"culture war" is a euphemism for fights picked by fascists
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong [🎁]
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EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Observe the warning signs of fascism. And yes Canada, that includes you too. #cdnpoli 👇
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Canada could help mitigate the damage to US education and global R&D by massively expanding our post-secondary education sector. Unfortunately our leaders see government spending, esp on education, as inherently wasteful, to be minimized, not as investments that create new markets and opportunities.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The time to invest in Canada's future is now. Only the state can play this role. Instead, gov'ts are slashing the university sector. Carney has our civil service focused inward on DOGE-esque waste elimination when they should be developing innovative moonshots to strengthen Canada and the economy.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Pope says genocide took place at Canada's residential schools | CBC News
While the word genocide wasn't heard in any of Pope Francis's addresses during a week-long trip to Canada, on his flight back to Rome, he said everything he described about the residential school syst...
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Royal Roads University @royalroads.ca · 18/09/2025
When Facebook makes you furious and Tik Tok ticks you off, here’s what you can do, says Dr. @jhodson.bsky.social, Canada Research Chair in Digital Misinformation, Polarization and Anti-Social Media. @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/09/2025
Disappointingly, Canada too engages in immigration fear-mongering. "Alberta will soon have citizenship markers on its driver’s licences and other identification cards, but some experts are concerned this could lead to discrimination for non-citizens." nowtoronto.com/news/experts...
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Experts warn new citizenship markers on Alberta IDs could fuel discrimination- NOW Toronto
Alberta will soon have citizenship markers on its driver’s licences and other identification cards, but some experts are concerned...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2025
@amnesty.org has released a report on the "global political economy” enabling genocide against Palestinians. The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.
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Scott Hamilton Kennedy @scotthamkennedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Wellness influencers aren’t selling health — they’re selling fear for profit. NYT Opinion exposes the same toxic playbook I flagged in Food Evolution + Shot in the Arm. Thanks @astocktonfilms @derekberes @nytopinion! #ToxicLieOfTheWeek
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 11/09/2025
the best way to make sure that you and your loved ones survive isn't to grab a gun and go shooting wildly. it's to make connections in your community, talk to your neighbors, organize in all forms of life. we need to help the people most vulnerable, and we need to build a new future
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
U.S. visitors to Canada outnumber Canadians in U.S. in rare reversal www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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U.S. visitors to Canada outnumber Canadians in U.S. in rare reversal
As Canadian travel to the United States continues to decline, new data shows a notable tipping point: More Americans visited Canada this July than Canadians did the United States, in a reversal not se...
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Royal Roads University @royalroads.ca · 13/06/2025
Chatbots can help clinicians practice talking to patients about difficult topics, like vaccines. In @ca.theconversation.com, RRU Assoc. Prof. @jhodson.bsky.social and researchers from @mit.edu and Duke University, wrote about the benefits of these tools.
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Chatbots can help clinicians become better communicators, and this could boost vaccine uptake
AI-powered chatbots can be used in health-care education to help providers practice encounters with patients who have vaccine questions.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...
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Ousted CDC vaccine adviser says RFK Jr.'s message is clear: ‘Scientific expertise is no longer of use’
Terminated CDC vaccine adviser Helen Chu spoke with STAT about her fears for the future of vaccine policy
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Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Can AI chatbots be useful for training clinicians to have better conversations with vaccine skeptical patients? We think yes! theconversation.com/chatbots-can...
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Chatbots can help clinicians become better communicators, and this could boost vaccine uptake
AI-powered chatbots can be used in health-care education to help providers practice encounters with patients who have vaccine questions.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
1/ Here’s the truth about policing in America, & why you should care even if you’re white, housed, documented, & not wealthy. Policing was never about protecting the public. It was built to control people. That control now targets all who defy the ruling class. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...
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"Learn to Code" Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment
It looks like the "learn to code" push is backfiring spectacularly for those who majored in computer science in college.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It is surreal to be bombarded with constant op-eds about how we must finally admit that lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures didn't work. Yes they did! COVID death rates were driven by lax policy and low compliance, mostly in red areas. acasignups.net/23/03/01/mar...
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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca · 22/05/2025
For decades, science-policy experts have worried that breakthrough findings are harder to come by, in turn feeding into slower economic growth. It’s a theme that some of the world’s most powerful science officials are harping on today. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?
Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Canadian doctors have been watching the evolution of the problem and are sounding the alarm: Private equity should be opposed in the delivery of medically necessary, publicly-funded healthcare @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...
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Canadian Doctors for Medicare’s Position Statement on Private Equity Investment in Canadian Health Care
Seeking to strengthen and improve Canada's universal publicly-funded health care system. Evidence-based, values driven.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
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Teach @kinderme.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 16/05/2025
HHS to stop recommending routine Covid shots for children, pregnant people, RFK Jr. ally says www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c... @isabellacueto.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
A child receives a Covid vaccine in Denver in 2021.
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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A company you've never heard of -- co-owned by Air Canada and eight other major carriers -- is quietly selling detailed passenger records and itineraries to ICE and other U.S. agencies. Reporter @katyaschwenk.bsky.social sounds the alarm on @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/air... (THREAD)
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Airlines Collect Passenger Data and Sell It to ICE, Other Federal Agencies
Data includes full flight itineraries, passenger name records and financial details which are otherwise hard to obtain.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Plagiarism machines have stolen every word I've ever written, including my book, without 1 penny of compensation, no consent. They're using the life's work of countless writers to spit out garbage--dangerous garbage. And the con artists running this scam are ruining the environment to do all that 🤮
A black cat with an open mouth has glowing red angry eyes.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/05/2025
“Today’s A.I. bots are based on complex mathematical systems that learn their skills by analyzing enormous amounts of digital data. They do not — and cannot — decide what is true and what is false. … On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.”
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/05/2025
Scammers often begin by creating dozens of fake Facebook pages and lookalike websites mimicking real news or government sites. These deceive users and evade Meta’s systems. But setting up fake pages and sites is just the first step in their scheme.
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MariKula@bsky.social @marikula.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Chris Connolly @chris3943.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Deb Tieleman🍁 @debrat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I wish he wasn't bringing his vitriolic act back to parliament. He is not a statesman or even remotely interested in cooperation with other parties for the betterment of Canadians. #cdnpoli #CarneyCan thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Conservatives Will Blow It by Keeping Poilievre | The Tyee
Voters in his own riding rejected his style of politics. And Canada will again.
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Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
As the planet burns…
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Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker
Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real world
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Gen Z and conservatives show higher misinformation susceptibility, large-scale study finds www.psypost.org/gen-z-and-co... via @psypost.bsky.social "...scores generally decreased as individuals identified further towards the conservative end of the spectrum."
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Gen Z and conservatives show higher misinformation susceptibility, large-scale study finds
New research involving over 66,000 people profiled misinformation susceptibility worldwide. Findings suggest Generation Z, non-males, the less educated, and conservatives struggle more with discerning...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Elon Musk: “I work 180 hours a week and have 14ish kids. Why can’t everyone else work 180 hours a week and have 14ish kids?” The pile of 100 billion dollars in the corner of his bedroom: “I dunno man, it just doesn’t make sense…”
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/04/2025
makes me think of when uber claimed AI was checking drivers’ photos and it was actually click workers somewhere in the global south
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Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#TimbitTrump
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The global network that ties Pierre Poilievre to Jordan Peterson
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's "Canada First" approach might put him on a collision course with Trump in the short term – but the two have a "shared worldview," said Naomi Klein.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/04/2025
"Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: Social Media Giants. Big social media and streaming companies will be deregulated, at Canadians’ expense" macleans.ca/politics/who...
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Jaigris Hodson @jhodson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty”
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/04/2025
You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a
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