B.C. woman’s thesis examines wildfire misinformation amid Meta news ban

When the Bush Creek East wildfire was destroying homes in the Central Okanagan and raining embers upon Kelowna in the summer of 2023, the event was shocking not only to evacuees, but to observers across the country.Blair Visscher was shocked for more reasons than one.Visscher, a Vernon resident, had her eye on Facebook as many at the time did, looking for information about the rapidly unfolding emergency.What she saw there was troubling. Images of flames, smoke and destruction aside, she found a