Twitter became the centre of the election this week when they put a "manipulated media” tag on one of Chrystia Freeland's tweets, which contained an edited video of Conservative leader Erin O'Toole. And is science journalism at a crisis point in Canada? An analysis finds Canada's biggest newspapers gave about half as much coverage to the IPCC's major recent climate report as US ones did.

Fatima Syed hosts with Sean Holman as co-host

Further Reading:

The Tyee: When Dire Climate News Came, Canada's Front Pages Crumpled
Politico on the political connections at Twitter
Chrystia Freeland's edited video of Erin O'Toole and the full video

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