> Aengus Bridgman
Associate Director, Centre for Media Technology and Democracy
Director, Media Ecosystem Observatory
Founder, Signal4 Analytics
Assistant Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
I study political behaviour and communication in Canada and other mature democracies. Methodologically, I work with survey, census, and social/traditional media data with an additional interest in data science, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science more generally.
Affiliations
Featured Research
Stealing the News: How AI Agents Use and Fail to Credit Canadian Journalism
Aengus Bridgman, Taylor Owen
Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, 2026
The Canadian Information Ecosystem during the 2025 Federal Election
Aengus Bridgman, Jennie Phillips, Alexei Abrahams, et al.
Media Ecosystem Observatory / Canadian Digital Media Research Network, 2025
Russian Funding of US and Canadian Political Influencers
Aengus Bridgman, Alexei Abrahams, Jennie Phillips, et al.
Canadian Digital Media Research Network, 2024
Featured Media
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
Nieman Lab · Mar 2026
The great AI content heist
Star News Group (Australian) · Mar 2026
Culture minister says 'serious conversation' needed about AI systems and news media
CTV News · Mar 2026
The next American threat you might not see coming
CBC News / The National · Jan 2026