The information the module comes from the following sources, listed in chronological in order:

Briggs, Paul. “Canada Time Spent with Media 2024.” eMarketer, 28 June 2024, www.emarketer.com/content/canada-time-spent-with-media-2024. 

“Canadians Spend 11 Hours per Day on Screens, Alcon Survey Shows.” Cision Canada, CNW Group, 10 Sept. 2019, www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canadians-spend-11-hours-per-day-on-screens-alcon-survey-shows-811357674.html. 

Bohn, Roger, & James E. Short. “Info Capacity: Measuring Consumer Information.” International Journal of Communication [Online], 6 (2012): 21. Web. 26 Feb. 2025

Palfrey, John. “Misinformation and Disinformation.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 4 Feb. 2025, www.britannica.com/topic/misinformation-and-disinformation. 

Mercier, Hugo. Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe. Princeton University Press, 2020. 

Van der Linden, Sander. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity. W. W. Norton & Company Ltd, 2023. 

Menczer, Filippo, and Thomas Hills. “Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024, www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overload-helps-fake-news-spread-and-social-media-knows-it/. 

Ceci, Laura. “Youtube: Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute 2022 | Statista.” Statista, www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-uploaded-to-youtube-every-minute/. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025. 

Heim, Sabine, and Andreas Keil. “Too Much Information, Too Little Time: How the Brain Separates Important from Unimportant Things in Our Fast-Paced Media World.” Frontiers for Young Minds, kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2017.00023#ref1. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025. 

“Algorithm.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 4 Feb. 2025, www.britannica.com/science/algorithm. 

Brady, William. “Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each Other.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024, www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-algorithms-warp-how-people-learn-from-each-other/. 

Fletcher, Richard. “The Truth behind Filter Bubbles: Bursting Some Myths.” Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/truth-behind-filter-bubbles-bursting-some-myths. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025. 

Lindsey Barrett, Laura Moy, et al. “How Tech Platforms Fuel U.S. Political Polarization and What Government Can Do about It.” Brookings, 25 July 2024, www.brookings.edu/articles/how-tech-platforms-fuel-u-s-political-polarization-and-what-government-can-do-about-it/.

Wu, Katherine J. “Radical Ideas Spread through Social Media. Are the Algorithms to Blame?” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 28 Mar. 2019, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/radical-ideas-social-media-algorithms/. 

Mundie, Jessica. “Canadians Will No Longer Have Access to News Content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta Says | CBC News.” CBCnews, CBC/Radio Canada, 23 June 2023, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-meta-facebook-1.6885634. 

Liv McMahon, Zoe Kleinman & Courtney Subramanian. “Meta to Replace ‘biased’ Fact-Checkers with Moderation by Users.” BBC News, BBC, 7 Jan. 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo. 

“Libguides: News Literacy: Checklists & Teaching Tools.” Checklists & Teaching Tools – News Literacy – LibGuides, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, guides.lib.unc.edu/news-literacy/checklists. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025. 

Zuo, Natalia, and Mike Wendling. “Election 2017: How Can You Pop Your Filter Bubble?” BBC News, BBC, 6 June 2017, www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40175788.