Ahmed Al-Rawi is Associate Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is also the founder of the Disinformation Project. His research interests are related to news, global communication, and social media with emphasis on Canada and the Middle East. Al-Rawi is also a founding member of the Media & Digital Literacy Academy in Beirut, Lebanon. His new research project which is funded by a SSHRC Insight grant investigates the issues of racism and democracy from the perspective of racialized Canadian journalists, the online public, and news content, partly to understand whether racism negatively influences democracy.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Canadian News Coverage of Disruptive Information(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)3. Manufacturing Disruptive Information by Fringe Canadian Journalism(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)4. Foreign Disruptive Information Campaigns Targeting Canada(Ahmed Al-Rawi)5. The Weaponizing of Disruptive Information in the Facebook Ads Targeting Canadians(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)6. Canadian Polarized Public and Disruptive Information on Social Media(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Devan Prithipaul)7. Canadian Journalists’ Insights on Disruptive Information(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)8. ConclusionReferencesIndex

An impressively comprehensive guide to understanding how disruptive information is deployed in both Canadian news media and online discourse. It’s an essential text if one wants to make sense of this often disorienting age of disinformation and misinformation.

Ahmed Al-Rawi is Associate Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is also the founder of the Disinformation Project. His research interests are related to news, global communication, and social media with emphasis on Canada and the Middle East. Al-Rawi is also a founding member of the Media & Digital Literacy Academy in Beirut, Lebanon. His new research project which is funded by a SSHRC Insight grant investigates the issues of racism and democracy from the perspective of racialized Canadian journalists, the online public, and news content, partly to understand whether racism negatively influences democracy.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Canadian News Coverage of Disruptive Information(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)3. Manufacturing Disruptive Information by Fringe Canadian Journalism(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)4. Foreign Disruptive Information Campaigns Targeting Canada(Ahmed Al-Rawi)5. The Weaponizing of Disruptive Information in the Facebook Ads Targeting Canadians(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)6. Canadian Polarized Public and Disruptive Information on Social Media(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Devan Prithipaul)7. Canadian Journalists’ Insights on Disruptive Information(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)8. ConclusionReferencesIndex

An impressively comprehensive guide to understanding how disruptive information is deployed in both Canadian news media and online discourse. It’s an essential text if one wants to make sense of this often disorienting age of disinformation and misinformation.

Ahmed Al-Rawi is Associate Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is also the founder of the Disinformation Project. His research interests are related to news, global communication, and social media with emphasis on Canada and the Middle East. Al-Rawi is also a founding member of the Media & Digital Literacy Academy in Beirut, Lebanon. His new research project which is funded by a SSHRC Insight grant investigates the issues of racism and democracy from the perspective of racialized Canadian journalists, the online public, and news content, partly to understand whether racism negatively influences democracy.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Canadian News Coverage of Disruptive Information(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)3. Manufacturing Disruptive Information by Fringe Canadian Journalism(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)4. Foreign Disruptive Information Campaigns Targeting Canada(Ahmed Al-Rawi)5. The Weaponizing of Disruptive Information in the Facebook Ads Targeting Canadians(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)6. Canadian Polarized Public and Disruptive Information on Social Media(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Devan Prithipaul)7. Canadian Journalists’ Insights on Disruptive Information(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)8. ConclusionReferencesIndex

An impressively comprehensive guide to understanding how disruptive information is deployed in both Canadian news media and online discourse. It’s an essential text if one wants to make sense of this often disorienting age of disinformation and misinformation.