Taylor Owen on Eroding Journalism & Disinformation During an Election | CBC News

Published: 25 March 2025

March 24, 2025 | With trust in journalism eroding, disinformation once fringe is now mainstream. Much of it is spreading on social media. Professor Taylor Owen says the online media environment in...

Taylor Owen on How Disinformation is Threatening Canada's Democracy

Published: 6 March 2025

March 6, 2025 | Taylor Owen explains Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s public inquiry into foreign interference that has identified disinformation as the most pressing danger to Canada’s democratic...

Taylor Owen on Europe's Strategic AI Shift Amid Geopolitical Fractures

Published: 17 February 2025

February 12, 2025 | Professor Taylor Owen writes about the "vibe-shift" of AI as he comes back from the Paris AI Action Summit. Owen explains how the governments are pivoting from regulating AI...

Machine Like Us Podcast Series | The Globe and Mail

Published: 7 May 2024

May 7, 2024 | We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction are now transpiring into our...

What the tick tock of online regulation says about our digital discourse | CBC Radio

Published: 19 March 2024

March 17, 2024 | In this episode of The Sunday Magazine, Taylor Owen joins a discussion on digital discourse and the future of online safety regulation. The US House of Representatives voted to...

AI and Canada's proposed Online Harms Act | GZERO

Published: 6 March 2024

March 5, 2024 | In this episode of GZERO AI, Professor Taylor Owen takes a look at the Canadian government’s Online Harms Act, which seeks to hold social media companies responsible for harmful...

How we can move forward, now that the divisive Bill C-18 is law | The Globe and Mail

Published: 2 August 2023

July 23, 2023 | In this opinion piece by Taylor Owen and Supriya Dwivedi, they reflect on the passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, where the government is hoping that Google and Meta would...

Curbing Online Harms | CBC Radio

Published: 23 June 2022

June 20, 2022 | With the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression's new report hot off the press, Commission co-chair and Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen sat down for an interview with...

Stronger government regulation of social media companies could improve free speech, says expert | CBC Radio

Published: 2 May 2022

In an interview with CBC Radio, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen—who leads the School's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy—opined on the role regulation can play in safeguarding free...

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