Global News published this video item, entitled “Influenced: Should Canada’s federal government regulate social media?” – below is their description.
From major privacy breaches to harmful content driving extremist movements, social media has influenced multiple dangers in the real world.
The problems were especially in the spotlight last September, when Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen provided evidence that suggests the company – now called Meta – knew its platforms prioritized profits over its users’ well-being. Haugen claimed that its products harm children and stoke division.
So can the federal government regulate it and should it? Anne Gaviola looks at the push for Ottawa to do more.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
