March 23, 2024 | An Opinion piece led by Professor Taylor Owen and听Peter MacLeod delves into the challenges that stand clear against Canada.听The country faces a war on two fronts: an economic campaign to weaken and ultimately annex us, and an information war to manipulate public opinion and destabilize our democracy. "As Canada enters a federal election campaign, the stakes couldn鈥檛 be higher.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2025
March 6, 2025 | Taylor Owen explains Justice Marie-Jos茅e Hogue鈥檚 public inquiry into foreign interference that has identified disinformation as the most pressing danger to Canada鈥檚 democratic institutions. But what led to the creation of the Foreign Interference Commission in the first place? And how does social media platforms influence Canada鈥檚 information landscape and its sovereignty?
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Published on: 6 Mar 2025
February听12, 2025 | Professor Taylor Owen听writes about the as he comes back from the听Paris AI Action Summit. Owen explains how the governments are pivoting from regulating AI risks to aggressively pursuing foreign direct investment, and Europe faces a new era of AI adoption.
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Published on: 17 Feb 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
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 reality. is a technology show where every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future.
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Published on: 7 May 2024
March 17, 2024 | In this episode of The Sunday Magazine,听Taylor Owen joins a discussion on digital discourse and the future of online safety regulation.听The US House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok. Professor Owen speaks on Canada's standpoint with this decision, and how the federal government has launched a national security review of the video-sharing app.
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Published on: 19 Mar 2024
March 5, 2024 | In this episode of GZERO AI, Professor听Taylor Owen听takes a look at the Canadian government鈥檚 Online Harms Act, which seeks to hold social media companies responsible for harmful content.
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Published on: 6 Mar 2024
December 5, 2023 | Taylor Owen joins episode of The Decibel by The Globe and Mail, to explain the details of Google's deal with Canada and what it sets for other places looking to bring in similar legislation.
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Published on: 7 Dec 2023
November 30, 2023 | In the article by Taylor Owen and Emily Laidlaw, they talk about the Online Harms Bill and how Canada is late to introducing this Bill.听
"We are late. Other democracies such as the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Australia have introduced legislation to safeguard citizens online."
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Published on: 5 Dec 2023
The Canadian government has reached a deal with Google over the Online News Act that will see the tech giant pay $100 million annually to publishers, and continue to allow access to Canadian news content on its platform. Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced the "historic development" regarding the implementation of Bill C-18 on Wednesday, after the tech giant had threatened to block news on its platform when the contentious new rules come into effect next month.
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Published on: 30 Nov 2023
November 28, 2023 | Taylor Owen co-hosted GZERO AI, a weekly video series intended to make their audience keep up and make sense of the latest news on the AI revolution. In the latest episode Taylor Owen explains the profound consequences of the OpenAI - Sam Altman drama.听
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Published on: 30 Nov 2023
May 26, 2023 | Following the controversial law in China that compelled companies to hand over platforms' user data if Beijing deems relevant to Chinese security, serious concerns were raised in Canada. Following this update most of the provinces and public institutions prohibited TikTok on government-owned devices. Former ByteDance executive has claimed that TikTok provides the Chinese government 'supreme access' to user data, indicating that the Chinese government is able to obtain information collected on Canadians' phones.听
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Published on: 30 May 2023
November 9, 2022 | Professor Tyler Owen weighed in the coming bill, saying听Canada should look at how other jurisdictions听have handled Musk鈥檚 鈥渃onvulsions.鈥� For example, the European Union has passed a Digital Services Act last summer that would require tech giants to monitor their platforms for harmful content.
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Published on: 11 Nov 2022
November 8, 2022 | Taylor Owen writes about why C-18 is, on balance, the right policy for the moment.听
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Published on: 11 Nov 2022
June 20, 2022 | With the听'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
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