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Fake News

What is fake news? Why should you care? How can you avoid it? Find out all this and more, in the UVic Libraries Fake News Guide.

News Habits

The Pew Research Center is an authoritative survey gathering body that reports on many attitudes and behaviors of people, mostly from the US but also including from global data.This page serves as a portal to the Pew Research Center's reports on views and consumption patterns of news.

Political Polarization

The Public Policy Forum is a Canadian think tank concerned with . Their Democracy Project released a final report in 2023 addressing social and political polarization in Canada, Far and Widening: The Rise of Polarization in Canada.

The Pew Research Center offers a variety of reports on American political polarization. These reports are based on findings the Center undertakes through surveys, focus groups, and other data collection methods.

PEN America provides this useful tip sheet on on how to minimize the spread of misinformation online.

Panel on Polarization in Canada

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