Oxford Internet Institute

8 December 2017

Authors: Scott A. Hale

Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Peter John, Dr Scott Hale, and Dr Taha Yasseri have won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize at the Political Studies Association (PSA)’s Annual ... Read More Awarded Political Studies Association book prize

18 November 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Lisa-Maria Neudert represented the project on a panel at the European Commission’s recent Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News, part of a large-scale consultation process on fake news currently being organized by ... Read More European Commission Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News

5 November 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

We are pleased to announce that our project has been awarded a 2017 Democracy Award by the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Every year the NDI recognizes organizations that have demonstrated ... Read More ComProp Awarded 2017 Democracy Award by NDI

5 November 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Samantha Bradshaw spoke to PBS for a story on Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential election. Since the election, there has been a shift away from completely automated, ... Read More The Election Is Over, But Russian Disinformation Hasn’t Gone Away

5 November 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Lisa-Maria Neudert spoke to the BBC for a radio episode discussing Russian involvement in the 2016 US election. The Kremlin says the investigation into last year’s US presidential election ... Read More Moscow Reacts To US-Russia Probe Arrests

5 November 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Samantha Bradshaw and Lisa-Maria Neudert spoke to a Mother Jones for a story which drew on the project’s work on polarizing information in swing states. “You can launch a ... Read More Putin’s Pro-Trump Trolls Just Targeted Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller

5 November 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Sam Woolley and Doug Guilbeault wrote an article for Quartz which provides a breakdown of the recent testimony provided to congressional intelligence committees by Facebook, Twitter, and Google to ... Read More What to watch for when America’s tech giants testify on Russian hacking today

24 October 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Project researcher Robert Gorwa wrote a new commentary essay for Quartz on Twitter’s bot policy. Several research projects, including the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute (where I am ... Read More Twitter has a serious bot problem, and Wikipedia might have the solution

11 October 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s research on social media operations targeted against veterans was covered by McClatchy. The Oxford study categorized 12,413 Twitter users and 11,103 Facebook users whose social media messages ... Read More Russian propaganda engaged U.S. vets, troops on Twitter and Facebook, study finds

11 October 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s latest memo on junk news and social media operations against veterans was covered in the Washington Post. They researchers also tracked information on several military-themed websites and ... Read More Russian operatives used Twitter and Facebook to target veterans and military personnel, study says

9 October 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We analyze the subgroups of Twitter and Facebook users who spend time consuming junk ... Read More Junk News on Military Affairs and National Security

5 October 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Phil Howard and Bence Kollanyi wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post, discussing how Facebook could share more data about political advertising and targeting with the public. Facebook ... Read More Facebook has so much more to tell us

5 October 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Phil Howard and Bence Kollanyi wrote an opinion article for the Guardian, discussing the project’s latest research and how social media companies could “design for deliberation.” Social media companies such ... Read More Social media companies must respond to the sinister reality behind fake news

30 September 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s recent research on polarizing information shared in the lead up to the 2016 US election was covered on CNN. Samantha Bradshaw appeared on CNN’s morning show to ... Read More Fake news rife on Twitter during election week, study from Oxford says

30 September 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s latest research into polarizing information shared in the lead up to the 2016 US election was covered in the Washington Post. Propaganda and other forms of “junk ... Read More Propaganda flowed heavily into battleground states around election, study says

30 September 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s latest research on politicized information and the 2016 US election was covered in Mother Jones. Millions of tweets were flying furiously in the final days leading up to ... Read More Fake News on Twitter Flooded Swing States That Helped Trump Win

29 September 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s research on how polarizing information was distributed across Twitter in the lead up to the 2016 US election was covered in Business Insider. A new study conducted ... Read More Twitter users spreading fake news targeted swing states in the run-up to Election Day