12.E2.1

assess the influence of communications and information technologies, including social media, on politics in Canada and other countries (e.g., with reference to increasing difficulty of controlling public access to previously privileged information; the use of robocalling to influence voters, of blogs to criticize governments, of texting to share information, of crowdsourcing to address a problem, of social media to follow, communicate with, and comment on politicians; ease of spreading propaganda or disinformation; the need for measures to protect privacy/confidential information)