The explosion of misleading and false information online in recent years will be difficult for governments to regulate on their own, say MPs who have themselves been targets of disinformation campaigns.
“Can we actually regulate this? My gut instinct is no,” said Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who took part in a panel discussion airing this weekend on CBC’s The House with Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi and Charlie Angus of the NDP.
Rempel Garner said both the technology driving disinformation and the business models that make it pay are adapting far more quickly than governments can move.
“We’re in a completely different universe,” Angus
