How OII is operating during the Coronavirus

23 March 2020

Authors: Isabelle Malcolm

The Oxford Internet Institute remains operational and is following the Coronavirus guidelines on the University website. Our buildings are closed to all visitors and staff and students are working ...
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The myth of the echo chamber

9 March 2018

Authors: Genevieve Juillet

There are widespread fears that so-called echo chambers and filter bubbles are leading to political polarization that poses a danger to democracy. But are the fears unfounded? (Melvin Sokolsky/1963 ...
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ComProp in CJR, the BBC, and the Economist

7 March 2018

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Project researchers have been providing context to journalists on a number of stories this past month as the conversation about the effects of disinformation and computational propaganda has escalated ...
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Restoring Trust in Social Media Civic Engagement

16 February 2018

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Abstract Increasingly, social media platforms have become tools for manipulating public opinion during elections. Political actors make use of technological proxies in the form of proprietary algorithms and semi-automated ...
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Coverage: Polarization, Partisanship, and Junk News

11 February 2018

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The latest data memo by Vidya Narayanan, Vlad Barash, John Kelly, Bence Kollanyi, Lisa-Maria Neudert, and Phil Howard received extensive international coverage, including: The Guardian Washington Post Financial Times Newsweek McClatchy ...
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Tackling Political Advertising

22 January 2018

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Over the past year, online political advertising has become a major topic of interest to scholars, journalists, and the public. Numerous stories have detailed how social media advertising tools ...
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Tackling Political Advertising

22 January 2018

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Over the past year, online political advertising has become a major topic of interest to scholars, journalists, and the public. Numerous stories have detailed how social media advertising tools ...
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Can Social Media be Fixed?

14 January 2018

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Samantha Bradshaw appeared on BBC radio to discuss one of the hottest questions of the moment: ‘Can Social Media be Fixed’? Political manipulation and fake news have shaken trust ...
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Can Social Media be Fixed?

14 January 2018

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Samantha Bradshaw appeared on BBC radio to discuss one of the hottest questions of the moment: ‘Can Social Media be Fixed’? Political manipulation and fake news have shaken trust ...
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IRL Podcast: Bot Or Not

11 January 2018

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Lisa-Maria Neudert and Tim Hwang appeared on an episode of Mozilla’s ‘IRL Podcast’ to discuss the use of bots in politics. From politics to poetry, bots are playing an ...
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Social media companies could face big fines in Germany if they don’t remove hate speech

11 January 2018

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Lisa-Maria Neudert spoke with Public Radio International about the German NetzDG hate speech law. “When we’re addressing issues of [fake news] and computational propaganda, a lot of the time ...
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Russian tweets on Brexit were minimal, study shows

21 December 2017

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The project’s latest research was featured in the Financial Times. More than 100 Russia-linked Twitter accounts published posts about Brexit in the run-up to the UK referendum, according to ...
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Did Russia Meddle in Brexit? A Social Media Study Casts Doubt

21 December 2017

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The project’s latest memo on Russian involvement in Brexit was covered in the New York Times. An academic study set to be released on Tuesday casts doubt on speculation ...
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‘Little evidence’ Russia influenced Brexit vote through social media, study finds

19 December 2017

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The project’s latest memo on Brexit was covered by Yahoo News. The Oxford Internet Institute, part of Oxford university, says that, despite the Kremlin exploiting Twitter and Facebook during the 2016 US ...
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Foreign Policy: 2017 Global Thinkers

12 December 2017

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Phil Howard was named one of Foreign Policy’s top global thinkers of 2017, along with Alice Marwick from Data and Society/UNC! Howard heads the Computational Propaganda Project at Oxford, ...
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Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation

12 December 2017

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Samantha Bradshaw spoke to the New York Times for a story touching on the history of social media manipulation. The Twitter bots that helped spread viral fake news during ...
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European Commission Multi-stakeholder Conference on Fake News

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 ...
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ComProp Awarded 2017 Democracy Award by NDI

5 November 2017

Authors: ComProp

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 ...
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The Election Is Over, But Russian Disinformation Hasn’t Gone Away

5 November 2017

Authors: ComProp

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, ...
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Moscow Reacts To US-Russia Probe Arrests

5 November 2017

Authors: ComProp

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 ...
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