Detoxing Democracy with SAMbot

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Detoxing Democracy with SAMbot

Date
October 4, 2026
Venue
Civic Tech Toronto
Price
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Online toxicity is a key reason that people are leaving politics, are not entering politics, or are steering clear of political conversations entirely. The Samara Centre of Democracy is attempting to quantify the online toxicity problem in Canada with SAMbot, a machine learning bot, to track toxic tweets received by Canadian political candidates.

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