In terms of the lack of explanatory journalism, another way of thinking about this is that we need to think about what journalism looks like in the 21st century, who can supply that information and so on. There are obviously a whole host of initiatives.
I'll just highlight one, which is The Conversation Canada, which was co-founded by a couple of my colleagues at UBC. The idea of that is pairing academics who are very bad at writing op-eds mostly with journalists who are able to edit. What we get there is academic expertise, but packaged in ways that most people can understand it. This can be freely reprinted. That's just one example of how we can amplify journalism and have it coming from experts.
In terms of social media expertise, this is quite a problematic area now because we see that social media platforms, even since 2022, have increasingly been shutting down the ability for researchers to access any data from platforms, whether it's CrowdTangle from Meta or X, which is now prohibitively expensive. It's made it harder and harder for us, as researchers, to be able to access the sort of data we need to answer a lot of the fundamental questions that this committee is proposing. That's why bills like Bill C-63 embed ideas around transparency for researchers within them.