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Samantha Edwards

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Online culture reporter at the Globe and Mail

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New: OpenAI says it has made changes that would refer Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT interactions to law enforcement if they happened today. Also reveals that shooter used a second account after being banned in June 2025. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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OpenAI says recent policy changes would have flagged Tumbler Ridge shooter’s messages to police
ChatGPT maker promises to ‘help prevent tragedies like this’ in letter to AI Minister Evan Solomon
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Mike Hager @mikehager.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In the wake of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people spread online by the likes of Elon Musk, Libs of TikTok, Matt Walsh, Andy Ngo, The Post Millennial and others. Great reporting by @samedwards.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
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In the wake of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people spread online
Right-wing influencers, social-media accounts and Reddit communities shared and amplified anti-trans rhetoric
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/02/2026
We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
One of the classic Westminster Dog Show bits for me is when the in-arena announcer describes the dogs as like "a courageous little clown and an ideal companion" while they're trotting around. More athletic competitions need that kind of real-time commentary.
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Reminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.
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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown - nice banger from my former colleagues @zackwhittaker.com and @lorenzofb.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/h...
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Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown  | TechCrunch
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As sexualized deepfakes proliferated on X, Canadian child safety advocates warned that lawmakers in the country have failed to keep up with regulating AI and social media to the detriment of online safety. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
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Grok’s AI-generated sexualized images of girls and women underscore struggle to regulate social media
Elon Musk’s image-generation tool has been deluged with prompts to explicitly alter images without consent
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This is one of my favourite things I worked on all year! Click through this choose-your-own-adventure quiz to uncover which buzzy word best reflects your year. Slop, vibe-coding, rage bait, 6-7? Find out your word while we're still in 2025. 🎁 Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3b8af88...
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Slop, rage bait, aura farming? Choose your own word of the year for 2025
The Globe has compiled eight words we feel best encapsulate 2025, whether you’re always thinking of AI, buying Canadian, or looking effortlessly cool
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Global TV (in Canada) had last night's original 60 Minutes episode including the pulled segment on CECOT on its app and website today until about 5:45pm ET. I was watching it when it got yanked - but bootlegs abound. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
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60 Minutes segment cancelled by CBS was available on Global TV website
Episode highlights accounts of alleged torture of men sent by U.S. to El Salvador prisons
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
From college radio to MuchMusic to, finally, YouTube and social media, @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social has transcended Canadian cult hero status to become a global phenomenon. I went to Vancouver to chat with him for the @theglobeandmail.com. Read it here! www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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How interviewer Nardwuar rose from Canadian cult hero to global phenomenon
The Vancouver native used to sneak around to score interviews. Now, A-listers seek him out
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Nardwuar the Human Serviette @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thanks you for the kind words and thank you to @samedwards.bsky.social for the support and all the interest in the first place ! Really appreciate it ! Inspires me to do more ! Doot doola doot doo …
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
No one's cooler than @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social, who's been doing his thing his way for 40 years. @samedwards.bsky.social interviews the human serviette. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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How interviewer Nardwuar rose from Canadian cult hero to global phenomenon
The Vancouver native used to sneak around to score interviews. Now, A-listers seek him out
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Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 14/11/2025
The @theglobeandmail.com has a stringer in Gaza, Hasan Jaber, and he is very much worth reading. "It is a tense grey phase, suspended between neither war nor peace. There is neither full-scale bombing nor a truce restoring life to its normal rhythm." www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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‘Truce is just a name’: Gazans struggle for stability as Israeli attacks continue during ceasefire
Next phase of peace plan not moving forward, with remains of seven Israeli hostages still unaccounted for
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
There he was, sitting behind home plate. With biceps like a Christmas ham and mountainous traps that nearly touched his ears. Dean Angelo has been attending Jays’ games since he was a kid. Now he's become a minor supporting character in the Blue Jays World Series run.
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Does gen alpha know the hamster dance song???
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Excellent reporting from @samedwards.bsky.social on the ways that misogynists are weaponizing the verdict. Everyone should read this story and be alarmed
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 20/08/2025
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Have cellphone bans been effective in schools? Share your thoughts
As school starts up again, we want to hear from parents, teachers and students on how cellphone bans have changed the classroom
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Today I'm on The Decibel, The Globe's daily podcast, talking about why Wikipedia is arguably one of the last good places on the internet. Listen here! pod.link/thedecibel/e...
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Being obsessed with the weather isn’t new, but this fixation has been modernized with hyper-localized streams of information, push notifications and influencers who feed on its addictive nature – all against the backdrop of extreme weather events. My latest: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Weather apps put more data than ever at our fingertips – and create the perfect storm for misinformation and anxiety
As wildfires and storms fuel climate worries, the rise of weather content on social media shows there’s a fine line between preparation and obsession
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 31/07/2025
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The Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial is over, but conversations about the sport’s culture continue
Attitudes toward women and sex still need to be confronted and changed beyond the locker room, advocates say
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"We are living in big starvation - and people here also are thirsty... [tomorrow] I don't know if I will be able to get a drink of water or not." Please listen to my friend Hasan Jaber's account of living through war and famine in Gaza. It pains me to hear how weak he sounds.
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
While giving her verdict this morning, the judge in the Hockey Canada trial highlighted the two consent videos recorded by one of the players. The judge says E.M. appears sober, is speaking clearly and not slurring. t.co/bt0wzClPIL
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A niche source request! Do you, or someone you know, have a personal weather station in their backyard and live in the general Toronto area? I want to talk to you/them for a story! Email is (always) open at sedwards@globeandmail.com
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I weighed in on the Coldplay jumbotron kiss-cam scandal, which imo highlights our rabid obsession with online sleuthing and subsequent public shaming, and how our rabbit hole-sleuthing can often wade into murky ethical territory. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
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The viral Coldplay kiss-cam video shows digital sleuthing can go too far
Moment between now-former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the tech company’s head of HR sparked a cheating scandal that quickly unraveled online
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The average person now has more access to weather minutiae than ever before: hour by hour forecasts of rainfall, air quality, pollen count, etc. For a Globe and Mail story, I want to chat with ppl obsessed with checking this weather data! DM or email me at sedwards@globeandmail.com 🌩️
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the posting of the first YouTube video ever, online culture reporter Samantha Edwards and I discussed how the platform has changed how the world views and views itself. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
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As YouTube turns 20, we look at what the platform has done for us – and to us
The video-sharing website that started off as a way to ‘broadcast yourself’ has turned into a cultural phenomenon. Globe and Mail reporters Samantha Edwards and J. Kelly Nestruck discuss its legacy
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
For YouTube's 20th anniversary*, me and the Globe's screens reporter @nestruck.bsky.social chatted** about the legacy of the platform and how its fundamentally changed how we see the world. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3b8af88...
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As YouTube turns 20, we look at what the platform has done for us – and to us
The video-sharing website that started off as a way to ‘broadcast yourself’ has turned into a cultural phenomenon. Globe and Mail reporters Samantha Edwards and J. Kelly Nestruck discuss its legacy
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Health #misinformation is a particularly worrisome problem in Canada where reduced access to family doctors pushes people online to seek medical information, by @samedwards.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #infodemic
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Doctors turn to social media to help patients where they’re at: online in a sea of misinformation
Health misinformation is a particularly worrisome problem in Canada where reduced access to family doctors pushes people online to seek medical information
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Xav Trudeau should’ve performed at the Liberal leadership announcement
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's reason for slapping tariffs on Canadian imports is because he says fentanyl is "pouring" across the border. But he is misrepresenting data about drug seizures and their links to Canada, a Globe investigation finds www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Trump’s White House is using misleading data about drug seizures and their links to Canada, a Globe investigation finds
Some fentanyl seizures attributed to the ‘northern border’ had nothing to do with Canada and were traced to Mexico
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Source callout: do you know someone who isn't on social media (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) or doesn't use Amazon or Uber for data privacy reasons? I'd love to chat with them for a Globe and Mail story. My email is sedwards@globeandmail.com or DM for Signal.
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
From Truth Social to Rumble, Adin Ross to the Nelk Boys, I wrote about the decidedly right-wing media ecosystem that's flourished in recent years, attracting everyone from traditional Republicans to extremist far-right castaways. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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A guide to Trumpism’s online universe, from Kick to Rumble to Truth Social
A far-right media landscape for social platforms is increasingly taking shape, and its influence now bleeds into the mainstream
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
And just like that, TikTok is restoring services in the U.S.
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hello! Are you a Canadian who is locked out of X? Send me a msg or email me at sedwards@globeandmail.com for a potential story. Thank you!!!
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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Scoop: we identified 3 outsourcing companies that are urgently hiring English-speaking content moderators to work for Xiaohongshu / REDNote, a sign that the platform is scrambling to grow its censorship capacity as thousands of TikTok refugees come in. www.wired.com/story/xiaoho...
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Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire Content Moderators Who Can Speak English
Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This may be our first case in Trump 2.0 where Congress and the courts say one thing and then Trump just does whatever he wants
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Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban
The Supreme Court upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday, ruling that free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chine...
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
As the U.S. TikTok ban looks more likely to happen on Sunday, I wrote about how American users are coping: with memes, jokes about their 'designated Chinese spies' and documenting their journeys over to RedNote: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
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TikTok users prepare to say goodbye to the app with memes and odes to their ‘designated Chinese spy’
With days to go before a TikTok ban in the United States is expected to take effect, U.S. users are saying goodbye with montages and memes
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Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com · 11/01/2025
Inspiring words on innovation from the inventor of Stories, Reels, and Threads.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Local news has invented another fake TikTok challenge ahead of the ban www.usermag.co/p/local-news...
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Local news has invented another fake TikTok challenge
+A 'hot masc' casting call, boy apartments, magnet implants, Musk's new favorite influencer, and the return of basic fashion
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I explain what’s going on with the looming TikTok ban: can/will the Supreme Court block the law? Can Trump save the app? What happens if it really does get banned on Jan. 19?
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Washington Post described Mark Carney as “a former central banker who has drawn comparisons to George Clooney” and said he has “movie star looks.” Excuse me? Who is saying this? I have never heard this before. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Who is next after Justin Trudeau?
Justin Trudeau’s resignation sparked a nationwide contest to replace him as Prime Minister of Canada, with several top candidates emerging from the Liberal Party.
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Wilted Christmas plants framing him, salt scattered on steps leading up to the door behind him, this is an excellent visual for the end of the second Trudeau era.
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Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"Justin Trudeau is expected to announce as early as Monday that he will resign as Liberal Party Leader" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Trudeau expected to announce resignation before national caucus meeting Wednesday
Sources say they are unsure about what the Liberal Party national executive plans to do to replace Trudeau as leader
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