Jeanna Matthews

Cellular phones track and reveal owners’ movements, generating useful data for pandemic tracking. (Shutterstock)

January 27, 2022

Ottawa’s use of our location data raises big surveillance and privacy concerns

Geoffrey M Rockwell, University of Alberta; Bettina Berendt, Technische Universität Berlin; Florence M. Chee, Loyola University Chicago; Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, and Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

In order to track the pandemic, the Public Health Agency of Canada has been using location data without explicit and informed consent. Transparency is key to building and maintaining trust.

Many people are led to conspiracy theories and extremist views from less extreme positions. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

January 12, 2022

Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes

Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University

Social media isn’t simply awash in conspiracy theories and extremism. It contains pathways designed to lead people to ever more extreme material.

All is not as it appears on social media. filadendron/E+ via Getty Images

June 24, 2020

How fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media – and what you can do about it

Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University

A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.

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Ottawa’s use of our location data raises big surveillance and privacy concerns

Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes

How fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media – and what you can do about it

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