Drawing on 4+ years of digital democracy research at the Samara Centre for Democracy, Alex will convene a discussion sharing learnings, best practices, and insight into the state of social media listening research in a Canadian context through sharing insights from the VERIFIED project and the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Speakers
Alex MacIsaac
Alex is the Senior Research Coordinator at the Samara Centre for Democracy. His work focuses on technology's influence on Canadian democracy and civic engagement, digital platform governance and prosocial design, and mitigating digital information threats. He currently is the project coordinator for VERIFIED and previously led the SAMbot project from 2022-2025.