OTTAWA — Canada’s election watchdog is seeking three specialists to analyze social media for threats to the integrity of the next federal election, a move that follows troublesome evidence of online Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential vote. In a recruitment notice issued Monday, the Commissioner of Canada Elections says the specialists will collect and methodically scrutinize content from social media, blogs, chat rooms, message boards, and video and image-sharing websites. They will be responsible for regularly briefing investigators and management on trends involving social media and other public information sources that might affect the electoral process. Scott Jones, head of the centre, is already seeing heightened public awareness about online threats to elections. “How can we be better users of social media?”— Follow @JimBronskill on Twitter

Source: National Post October 22, 2018 18:56 UTC