An Independent Digital Media Ecosystem? Canada's Online Discourse in the Shadow of the United States

<jats:p>A national study analyzing over 8.8 million social media posts and a nationally representative survey to assess whether Canada's digital media ecosystem is independent of U.S. influence, finding that ecosystem independence varies by topic and time — Canadians drive the conversation when domestic news breaks, but a subset of Canadian influencers are closely integrated with their U.S. counterparts.</jats:p>