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Tories hired strategists to undermine Maxime Bernier’s PPC: source

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The federal party leaders addressed allegations on Saturday that Warren Kinsella’s Daisy Group consulting firm produced a social media campaign to “seek and destroy” Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada for an unnamed client. A source with knowledge of the project tells CBC News that client was the Conservative Party of Canada.

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5 Crazy Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right Now

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Further Reading–

Abnormal White Matter Integrity in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder: A Tract-Based Spatial Statistics Study
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030253

Phantom vibrations among undergraduates: Prevalence and associated psychological characteristics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212000799

Cognitive control in media multitaskers
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15583.abstract?sid=113b39d8-d0b5-4f46-b2a5-362ee79d0b61

Amygdala Volume and Social Network Size in Humans
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079404/

What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward
learning, or incentive salience?
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publications/Berridge&RobinsonBrResRev1998.pdf

Most Popular Social Networks 2003 – 2019

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Timeline evolution of top social networks from 2003 to 2019. Measured by monthly active users worldwide. Video hosting services like YouTube or Vimeo, as well content/community sites like Reddit are not included.

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