Francis Fortin

$49,463.57 CAD

≈ 8 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Defence
Program
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) - Targeted Engagement Grant Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2019-2020
Agreement period
September 3, 2019 – —
Reference
dnd-mdn:2019-Q2-00009

Published purpose

A project to identify current and future challenges in deterring, detecting, allocating and responding to social media information operations. It proposes to draw on the experiences and practices of other countries and sectors to improve the capabilities of the Canadian Armed Forces. The project proposes a report containing the research results, the planning of a conference on the subject, as well as the development of a machine learning algorithm to analyze misinformation campaigns.

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