Oxford Internet Institute

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 ... Read More ComProp in CJR, the BBC, and the Economist

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 ... Read More Coverage: Polarization, Partisanship, and Junk News

6 February 2018

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What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before President Donald Trump’s ... Read More Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US

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 ... Read More IRL Podcast: Bot Or Not

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 ... Read More Social media companies could face big fines in Germany if they don’t remove hate speech

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

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

28 September 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality ... Read More Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?

19 September 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Automation and propaganda can significantly impact public life during important policy debates, elections, and political crises. We collected Twitter data on bot activity and junk news using a set of ... Read More Junk News and Bots during the German Parliamentary Election: What are German Voters Sharing over Twitter?

14 September 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Lisa-Maria Neudert was interviewed for this Science Magazine story on bots and the German election. Germany seemed a good place to try. The German parliament’s network was hacked in ... Read More Social media ‘bots’ tried to influence the U.S. election. Germany may be next.

1 July 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Our case study series and the project’s German case study were discussed in an article for the German publication Heise Online:    Die sozialen Netzwerke Twitter und Facebook werden ... Read More Twitter und Facebook müssen mehr gegen politische Propaganda unternehmen

19 June 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

As part of our new country case study series, project member Lisa-Maria Neudert investigated computational propaganda in Germany. Political actors are using algorithms in efforts to sway public opinion. ... Read More Computational Propaganda in Germany: A Cautionary Tale

25 May 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Lisa-Maria Neudert gave a talk at re:publica 2017 in Berlin. Computational propaganda – the use of information technologies for political manipulation – is on the rise. Social bots are ... Read More Caught in the propaganda crossfire? Bots on social media.

26 March 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms. The combination of automation and propaganda can significantly impact public opinion during important ... Read More Junk News and Bots during the German Federal Presidency Election: What Were German Voters Sharing Over Twitter?

26 March 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms. The combination of automation and propaganda can significantly impact public opinion during important ... Read More Junk News and Bots during the U.S. Election: What Were Michigan Voters Sharing Over Twitter?