Taylor Owen聽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.
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Published on: 15 Jun 2026
June 11, 2026 |聽Taylor Owen聽joined CBC's Front Burner to walk through Bill C-34, the newly tabled Safe Social Media Act.
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Published on: 15 Jun 2026
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.
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Published on: 15 Jun 2026
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.听
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Published on: 9 Dec 2025
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鈥檚 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.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2025
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 .
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Published on: 9 Sep 2024
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. ()听
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Published on: 11 Apr 2024
We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn鈥檛 have happened at a worse time | The Globe and Mail
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.听
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."
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Published on: 24 Oct 2023
June 20, 2022 | With the聽'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 on: 23 Jun 2022
April 27, 2022 |聽Taylor Owen聽and聽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.
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Published on: 28 Apr 2022
Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier has announced the 2022 winners of the聽Principal鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media.听Stephanie Zito, a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, was announced as the winner of the Prize for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows for her work in using socia
Published on: 21 Apr 2022
March 25, 2022 | Screen Time podcast聽is an eight-episode podcast miniseries that explores the rapidly evolving relationship between kids and technology. Co-hosted by Max Bell School professor聽Taylor Owen, who also directs the School's ,聽Catch up on the first three episodes:
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Published on: 25 Mar 2022
February 11, 2022 | As part of the聽Schwartz Reisman Institute's聽Seminar Series, Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen delivered a presentation on the regulatory frameworks governments are putting in place to mitigate the potential negative impacts of digital ecosystems, including Big Tech social media platforms.
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Published on: 18 Feb 2022
November 8, 2021 | Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen recently spoke at a聽virtual symposium hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.听鈥淲e鈥檝e had this experience where everybody needs to know similar things and trust similar institutions, and even behave in similar ways, (like) taking a vaccine. It鈥檚 difficult because antivax content and misinformation about the vaccine, and about the pandemic itself, has been incentivized to circulate far and wide.鈥�
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Published on: 9 Nov 2021
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told British lawmakers that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to fix the problems, providing strong momentum for efforts by European governments working on stricter regulation of tech giants. While her testimony echoed much of what she told the U.S. Senate earlier this month, her appearance drew intense interest from a British parliamentary committee that is much further along in drawing up legislation to crack down on social platforms.
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Published on: 27 Oct 2021
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