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Taylor Owen on Enforcing the Safe Social Media Act | CBC News

webfull — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:28:16 +0000

Taylor Owen joined CBC News to break down Canada's newly tabled Safe Social Media Act, calling it "one of the first trials in the world" of using access restrictions as a lever to force compliance from large platforms. Owen pushes back on the idea that the bill is unenforceable on US-based tech giants, pointing to penalties of up to 3% of global revenue and to similar rules already in effect in the UK and EU as evidence that "the idea that this can't be done is a far more difficult argument" today than it once was.

Published: 15 June 2026

Taylor Owen on the Safe Social Media Act and AI Chatbots | CBC Radio

webfull — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:57:56 +0000

June 11, 2026 | Taylor Owen joined CBC's Front Burner to walk through Bill C-34, the newly tabled Safe Social Media Act.

Published: 15 June 2026

Taylor Owen on Canada's Conditional Approach to Online Safety | The Globe and Mail

webfull — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:45:22 +0000

June 11, 2026 | Taylor Owen examines Canada's newly tabled Bill C-34, arguing that the legislation goes beyond Australia's blanket under-16 social media ban by offering platforms a pathway to earn young users back if they can prove their products are safe for children.

Published: 15 June 2026

Experts: Australia bans social media use for under-16s

webfull — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:30:07 +0000

Starting Dec. 10, Australia will become the first country in the world to ban the use of social media platforms by those who are under 16. The goal is to protect the young from cyber-bullying, grooming and exposure to harmful content. The onus will be on the social media companies to enforce the ban.

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Published: 9 December 2025

Isabella Coronado Doria MPP '25 on Canada’s Need for Stronger Online Safety Laws | Policy Magazine

webfull — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:16:18 +0000

July 20, 2025 | MPP 25 Isabella Coronado Doria wrote an opinion piece for Policy Magazine addressing the urgent need for stronger regulation of digital platforms to protect children’s mental health and safety. The article highlights the tragic story of Sewell Setzer, a 14-year-old who developed a harmful virtual relationship with a chatbot, leading to his suicide and a lawsuit against the platform for inadequate safety measures.

Published: 22 July 2025

Taylor Owen on Uniform Social Media Regulations

webfull — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:38:10 +0000

September 6, 2024 | Taylor Owen spoke about the online harms of social media and how having uniform social media regulations enforced across all digital platforms, can help with the online governance on The Star.

Published: 9 September 2024

Expert: Instagram cracks down on teen sextortion

webfull — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:29:40 +0000

Instagram is aiming to make it harder for potential scammers and criminals to coerce teens into sending nude photos and extort them for money. The company announced on Thursday it is testing new features to curb an alarming trend called financial sextortion, which often targets kids and teenagers. (CNN)

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Published: 11 April 2024

We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time | The Globe and Mail

webfull — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:31:34 +0000

October 20, 2023 | This opinion piece by Taylor Owen talks about the reasoning behind why he decided to take a break from X, formerly Twitter, a platform he has been using as a gateway to information for over a decade.

He said "the platform is now broken. Where it once filtered valuable information about the world in a timely manner, it is now calibrated to anger and extremes under the ownership of a spiteful billionaire clearly caught in an ideological rabbit hole."

Published: 24 October 2023

Curbing Online Harms | CBC Radio

webfull — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:14:11 +0000

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 CBC Radio to discuss the recommendations on curbing online harm that he and his colleagues have proposed.

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Published: 23 June 2022

Whose speech will Elon Musk’s Twitter be protecting, exactly? | Globe and Mail

webfull — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:08:47 +0000

April 27, 2022 | Taylor Owen and Supriya Dwivedi of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy write that Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter might strengthen the democratic governance that social media companies have fought against.

>>Read the article

Published: 28 April 2022

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Taylor Owen on Enforcing the Safe Social Media Act | CBC News

Taylor Owen on the Safe Social Media Act and AI Chatbots | CBC Radio

Taylor Owen on Canada's Conditional Approach to Online Safety | The Globe and Mail

Experts: Australia bans social media use for under-16s

Isabella Coronado Doria MPP '25 on Canada’s Need for Stronger Online Safety Laws | Policy Magazine

Taylor Owen on Uniform Social Media Regulations

Expert: Instagram cracks down on teen sextortion

We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time | The Globe and Mail

Curbing Online Harms | CBC Radio

Whose speech will Elon Musk’s Twitter be protecting, exactly? | Globe and Mail

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