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Poll shows Canadians willing to give up personal freedoms to curb disinformation, will the UK variant change modelling predictions? An Putin’s biggest critic incites protests in Russia

Poll shows Canadians willing to give up personal freedoms to curb disinformation, will the UK variant change modelling predictions? An Putin’s biggest critic incites protests in Russia

The Alex Pierson Show · 640 Toronto / Curiouscast

January 26, 202141m 26s

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Show Notes

Alex speaks with Jim Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression Faculty of Communications and Design at Ryerson University about what Canadians are willing to give up in order to stop misinformation from spreading online. She also speaks with a mathematical epidemiologist about how the more contagious UK COVID-19 variant will alter our current predictions for spread, and Marcus Kolga, an expert on Russian issues about protests in support of Putin’s critic, Alexei Navalny.

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