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Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report

The manipulation of public opinion through social media remains a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.

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Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem – Oxford report

Social media manipulation of public opinion is a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the OII.

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Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem, report finds

Social media manipulation of public opinion is a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the Oxford Internet Institute.

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Social media manipulation a growing threat to democracies: Oxford study

Governments, public relations firms and political parties are producing misinformation on an industrial scale, the report says.

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Viral visuals driving social media manipulation on YouTube, Instagram: researchers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-disinformation/viral-visuals-driving-social-media-manipulation-on-youtube-instagram-researchers-idUSKBN1WB0ED

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New report reveals growing threat of organised social media manipulation world-wide

The manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life.

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Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

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Event: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation (Chatham House, London)

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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media

Social media misinformation is spreading globally. This book argues that this automation and platform manipulation, amounts to a new political communications mechanism that editors Samuel Woolley and Philip N. Howard call "computational propaganda."

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Trump’s Twitter ban obscures the real problem: state-backed manipulation is rampant on social media

Donald Trump’s controversial removal from social media platforms has reignited debate around the censorship of information published online.