COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Ethical Questions of Research and Regulation in the Canadian Context
This chapter reports on Canadian research into online misinformation pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative research reported on herein forms part of our longer-term goal, i.e., the development of an artificial intelligence (machine-learning) tool to assist social media platforms, online service providers and government agencies in identifying and responding to misinformation on social media. In this chapter, we consider the ethical and legal issues pertaining to qualitative analysis of social media posts and the […]