/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3745/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-elon-musk-buy-twitter-44b-us-339305 <p>Elon Musk has sealed a deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion US. The move comes after the richest man in the world started buying shares in the company in March, complaining that the social media network wasn't doing enough to ensure free speech. The company rebuffed his advances for weeks before the two sides struck a deal over the weekend that was made official on April 25. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/musk-twitter-monday-1.6429802" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">CBC News</a>)聽</p> Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:54:33 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288109 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/americans-are-super-spreaders-covid-19-misinformation-330229 <p>Misinformation about COVID-19 is spreading from the United States into Canada, undermining efforts to mitigate the pandemic. A <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2021.648646/abstract">study</a> led by 不良研究所 shows that Canadians who use social media are more likely to consume this misinformation, embrace false beliefs about COVID-19, and subsequently spread them.</p> Tue, 06 Apr 2021 02:06:04 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 258602 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/covid-19-social-media-users-more-likely-believe-false-information-323390 <p>A new study led by researchers at 不良研究所 finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions and are more likely to follow public health recommendations like social distancing.</p> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:15:35 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 230567 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/your-friends-have-more-friends-you-do-260887 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, <a href="/newsroom">不良研究所 Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media</em></p> Wed, 18 May 2016 14:32:09 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25842 at /newsroom /newsroom/faculty-and-staff/socialmedia/social-media-guidelines <p>These guidelines聽mainly聽cover the appropriate use by individuals representing their faculty, department or unit. They do not supplant any聽<a href="/secretariat/policies-and-regulations" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">University Policies, Procedures and聽Guidelines</a>. They聽also apply to students who have permission to post on university social media sites.聽</p> <p>While intended to guide social media managers, these guidelines聽聽may also benefit employee or student groups and individuals who maintain and monitor professional and personal sites.聽</p> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:05:25 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 18096 at /newsroom /newsroom/faculty-and-staff/socialmedia <h2>Social media at 不良研究所</h2> <p>The goal of 不良研究所 social media pages is to strengthen our community, which includes students, faculty and聽alumni. The aim is to provide information about the聽University to the public and the internal community, celebrate our successes, promote events, publicize campus news and promote networking.聽</p> <p>不良研究所聽University聽encourages all 不良研究所 faculties, departments to become involved in using social media in communications with stakeholders.聽不良研究所鈥檚聽social media聽team聽provides聽guidance to聽faculties on how best to use social media toward communications goals, as the manager/moderator of an account for department or faculty.聽聽</p> <p>不良研究所's聽centrally-managed聽social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube are carefully managed by the social media team聽to preserve the trust that we've established with our audiences.聽</p> <p>We have an audience that expects an authentic, authoritative voice on news and general information about the University.聽聽</p> <p>Through our stories and news on successes of the University community, or campus life, we are proud promoters of the community鈥檚 achievements, initiatives, and major University events.聽</p> <table> <tr> <td>不良研究所 fosters freedom of expression, while valuing respect and collegiality. Participants on our social media channels are expected to treat each other, and us, with respect. We reserve the right to remove the following: Comments deemed offensive, vulgar or profane; comments off-topic and/or unrelated to posted content; content that promotes services or products, content that infringes on an individual's safety, privacy or copyright. A user will be blocked after repeated breaches.</td> </tr> </table> <p>We聽accept submissions for broadcasting items from the internal community on our social聽channels, but聽use our discretion on what we will publish and how it will be framed. Items must be suitable, of interest, and of importance to a majority or an important segment of our audience. The shared items will be framed and shared in our own 鈥渧oice鈥�. If not of wide appeal to our audience, we can direct you to the many unit, faculty or department social media platforms where items may be more suitable.聽</p> <p>The views expressed and published on 不良研究所鈥檚 social media channels by a participant, invitee, expert, guest or other person are not necessarily the views of 不良研究所. We do not endorse any opinions expressed by users, nor accept responsibility or liability for the comments, statements or claims of users on our accounts.</p> <p>For enquiries or further information about 不良研究所鈥檚 social media channels please email <span class="spamspan"><span class="u">info.communications</span> [at] <span class="d">mcgill.ca</span><span class="e"><!--target="_blank"--></span></span></p> <p>Our audiences include:聽</p> <p>Internal: students, faculty, staff聽</p> <p>External: prospective students, alumni, journalists, government (municipal, provincial, federal, international), friends of the University, other academic communities and their members.聽</p> <p>Next:</p> <div class="bl-tpl"><a class="button--outline" href="/newsroom/socialmedia/guidelines">Social media guidelines</a></div> <p> Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:57:16 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 10 at /newsroom