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b'Coming into the 2019 federal election, there were widespread concerns regarding disinformation campaigns, foreign interference, social media advertising and manipulation, and fake news. The federal government enacted legislation designed to foster greater transparency on political advertising, but on the heels of elections elsewhere, the prospect of online harms to the electoral process appeared very real. Taylor Owen of McGill University set out to find out what was actually taking place online. He joined me on the podcast shortly after the election to discuss how social media was being used, political advertising trends, the role of fact checking, and the presence of misinformation and fake news.\\nThe podcast can be downloaded here and is embedded below. The transcript is posted at the bottom of this post or can be accessed here. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\nDigital Democracy Project\\nCredits:\\n\\nCBC News, Election Interference is Happening in Canada: What You Can do to Stop It\\nCPAC, Are You Concerned With Fake News and Disinformation in Canada?\\nTranscript:\\n\\n\\n\\nLawBytes Podcast \\u2013 Episode 29 transcript powered by Sonix\\u2014the best audio to text transcription service\\nLawBytes Podcast \\u2013 Episode 29 was automatically transcribed by Sonix with the latest audio-to-text algorithms. This transcript may contain errors. Sonix is the best way to convert your audio to text in 2019. \\nMichael Geist: \\nThis is Law Bytes, a podcast with Michael Geist.\\nCBC: \\nDistortion is a cer'