Oxford Internet Institute

15 April 2018

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A new article by Phil Howard, Sam Woolley, and Ryan Calo was published in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.   Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the ... Read More Algorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election

23 March 2018

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Samantha Bradshaw and Phil Howard have a new report, published as a white paper in a series on media and democracy commissioned by the Knight Foundation. This white paper ... Read More Why Does Junk News Spread So Quickly Across Social Media?

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

14 December 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Computational propaganda has recently exploded into public consciousness. The U.S. presidential campaign of 2016 was marred by evidence, which continues to emerge, of targeted political propaganda and the use ... Read More Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data: Moving Toward a More Critical Research Agenda

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, ... Read More Foreign Policy: 2017 Global Thinkers

12 December 2017

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Project PI Phil Howard spoke at an event hosted by the University’s Social Science Division to highlight projects across the university receiving ERC funding. The talk has been made ... Read More 10 Things you wish you didn’t know about elections (and what to do about them)

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

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

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?

10 August 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s research and writing was discussed in Vice News. To answer these questions conclusively, academic researchers have said that Facebook could very easily clear the air by releasing ... Read More What Facebook Knows

18 July 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s research on government-sponsored social media manipulation was covered in the Washington Post. These propaganda efforts exploit every social media platform — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and beyond — ... Read More Spreading fake news becomes standard practice for governments across the world

18 July 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s research was featured in a New York Times column written by Tim Wu. Robots posing as people have become a menace. For popular Broadway shows (need we ... Read More Please Prove You’re Not a Robot

18 July 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

The project’s recent paper on government efforts to manipulate public opinion online was covered by Bloomberg. Governments around the world are enlisting “cyber troops” who manipulate Facebook, Twitter and ... Read More Government ‘Cyber Troops’ Manipulate Facebook, Twitter, Study Says

12 July 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Project PI Phil Howard was interviewed for a short article in IEEE Spectrum. Every now and then sociologist Phil Howard writes messages to social media accounts accusing them of being bots. ... Read More How Bots Win Friends and Influence People