I'm not sure about that. I think people are becoming more discerning. Unfortunately, we're getting to a point where sometimes we don't know if we can believe anything and we have to double- and triple-check everything, and maybe that's the world we're in. It's really helpful for organizations that are non-partisan, like Elections Canada, to help citizens develop that sense of needing to double- and triple-check to make sure, especially at election time, but it's hard to do.
Also, for example, when we're talking about foreign interference, a lot of the time we're not talking about messages that are going across the board to all Canadians that we can see in broad daylight. We're talking about messaging targeted at a small part of the population that doesn't go through the filter of CBC or CTV, like Professor Loewen was talking about, and those sorts of things can be harder to detect. I do think that the role of SITE during the campaign, for example, was performed very well.
We're not lost. We're doing some things right.