Civic Hacknight #488: PoliDashboard — Making the Invisible Visible
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Topic: Making the Invisible Visible: Tracking and Visualizing Political Advertising on Meta Platforms with PoliDashboard.org
Discover how political advertisers in Canada are chasing your clicks on Facebook and Instagram — and how paid political ads can be weaponized to mislead, manipulate, or interfere in an election.
Speaker: Philip Mai
Philip is a Senior Researcher and Co-Director at the Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. His work focuses on social media use and misuse —covering disinformation, deepfakes, foreign interference, conspiracy theories, online toxicity, and digital political transparency. He also develops research tools and dashboards for students and scholars to study public discourse and online participation.
April theme: electoral interference and online disinformation
With a federal election coming up on April 28th, we've dedicated four weeks to featuring Toronto-based presenters who research and build tools to fight election interference and online disinformation. Check the complete list of upcoming events.
Entry Note:
Please note, in-person attendees will need to go through a metal detector, and have their bags searched. Sharp tools or knives will not be permitted.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
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Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
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Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Civic Hacknight #488: PoliDashboard — Making the Invisible Visible
Topic: Making the Invisible Visible: Tracking and Visualizing Political Advertising on Meta Platforms with PoliDashboard.org
Discover how political advertisers in Canada are chasing your clicks on Facebook and Instagram — and how paid political ads can be weaponized to mislead, manipulate, or interfere in an election.
Speaker: Philip Mai
Philip is a Senior Researcher and Co-Director at the Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. His work focuses on social media use and misuse —covering disinformation, deepfakes, foreign interference, conspiracy theories, online toxicity, and digital political transparency. He also develops research tools and dashboards for students and scholars to study public discourse and online participation.
April theme: electoral interference and online disinformation
With a federal election coming up on April 28th, we've dedicated four weeks to featuring Toronto-based presenters who research and build tools to fight election interference and online disinformation. Check the complete list of upcoming events.
Entry Note:
Please note, in-person attendees will need to go through a metal detector, and have their bags searched. Sharp tools or knives will not be permitted.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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