Data About Canadians For Canadians. Here's where you can find all of our recent public reports, which provide a snapshot of social media usage trends in Canada and Canadians' attitudes and perceptions towards issues such as AI, misinformation, politics, and privacy. socialmedialab.ca/public-repor...
Welcome to our new Deepfakes Tracker, your hub for tracking and understanding synthetic media. Take a quick video tour. deepfakestracker.org
Other improvements include:
- Enhanced sentiment analysis and topic modeling using modern multilingual AI models
- Faster network visualization powered by GPU-accelerated algorithms
- A new Team / Instructor tier designed for collaborative research and teaching communalytic.org
This past wk, we launched a new version of Communalytic, a platform designed to help you explore how digital conversations shape public opinion & behaviour across social media. Key highlights incl:
expanded data collection capabilities, including two new TikTok data collectors.
Researchers, are you or your PhD student conducting research on online discourse, or exploring how digital conversations shape public opinion and behaviour? Our new @communalytic.org tool may help with your next research project. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c...
Communalytic, a no-code computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media, includes 20 easy-to-use social media data collectors and a full suite of built-in data analyzers. communalytic.org/about-us/ #medsky #comsky #polsky #phdsky
Researchers, are you studying public discourse on social media? If you are, check out our all-new @Communalytic.org research platform, which features a suite of easy-to-use social media data collectors & analyzers. #AcademicSky #ComSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky
Researchers, are you studying public discourse on social media? If you are, check out our new @Communalytic.org research platform, which features a suite of easy-to-use social media data collectors & analyzers. #AcademicSky #ComSky #CommSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky
Hello Researchers, Welcome to the new Communalytic!
We've launched a major upgrade to Communalytic with new features, new data sources, improved visualizations, a unified login experience, and so much more. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c... #academicsky #sciencesky #medsky #comsky #polsky #phdsky
The new version of Communalytic.org introduces powerful new analysis tools, new data collectors for TikTok and Bluesky, a redesigned interface, and enhanced collaboration capabilities aimed at researchers, journalists, educators, and civil society organizations studying digital discourse. #phdsky
The analysis was language agnostic. This is based on reposts and link sharing.
Mr. Mai said the TikTok saga showed " #digitalsovereignty is increasingly political, not absolute".
"For the US, it exposes the limits of enforcing sovereignty in an open internet: national security concerns collide with free speech norms, market realities and electoral incentives."
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"New KM Compass App From the Social Media Lab Helps Researchers Translate Knowledge Into Real-World Impact" socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/02/n...
The real problem isn’t rage itself, but the systems we’ve built around it: systems designed to provoke, manipulate, and monetize our anger. Instead of empowering us to right a wrong, they exploit our most powerful instincts for profit.
Rage farming has turned into an industry, and the irony is that many of its operators don’t even live in the West; it’s just a paycheck to them. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... The absolute failure is ours: we allowed surveillance capitalism to entrench itself.
"Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed?
If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or phrase of the year." www.bbc.com/news/article...
The conflict of interest here is off the chart: "Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
There was a time when professors warned students never to cite Wikipedia. Now it has become foundational knowledge for AI systems and a trusted resource for community fact-checkers who use it to make sense of information & settle debates. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca #FactChecking #DigitalLiteracy
Calling all journalists, here's a handy new tool to help you scan not-yet-visible X's Community Notes to uncover early corrections or emerging debates around a post on X on a topic you might be covering. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca#reporter-guide
"How a Flawed X Feature Sparked False Political Accusations.
Charges of foreign influence flew based on X’s location feature. The truth is more complicated." thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
We are not opposed to AI. In fact, we've integrated it into many of the data tools we develop. However, precisely b/c we use & work w/ AI every day, we, like many other experts, also understand its limitations.
AI’s Impact on Canadians: A Briefing for the Senate socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/a...
"Fact File: How Canadian accounts got swept up in X's location feature accuracy issues" www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
"Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter... Topline data shows that use of the big three platforms has pretty much plateaued, and that TikTok continues to grow at roughly the same rate as Instagram did during its expansion." kevinmunger.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
The power of near-realtime data: Our NoteTracker Dashboard currently shows that only a small fraction [10.9%] of Community Notes are visible on X. In comparison, an overwhelming majority [89.1%] of proposed Community Notes are not yet visible (based on 1741011 notes). notetracker.socialmedialab.ca
"This suggests a growing gap between how widely these tools are used and how prepared people are to use them safely." socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/a...
"In our new study, The State of Generative AI Use in Canada, about two-thirds of Canadians said they had tried generative AI. But, only 38% felt confident using it effectively, and only 36% understood the rules and ethics behind responsible use." socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/a...
