Taylor Owen, an associate professor at McGill University, testified at a public inquiry into foreign interference, stating that individual behavior is influenced by a multitude of factors beyond a single media piece.
OTTAWA — An academic who studies the flow of information in an era of mistruths and polarized views says it is very difficult to gauge the effect of media content on people’s behaviour.
Rather, he said, it is influenced by the sum total of a person’s experiences, beliefs, values, politics and overall media consumption.
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