Oxford Internet Institute

6 June 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Platforms like Twitter and sources like Wikipedia are important parts of the information diet for many citizens. In this data memo, we analyse Twitter data on bot activity and ... Read More Social Media and News Sources during the 2017 UK General Election

5 May 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 French Presidential Election (Round II)

21 April 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 French Presidential Election (Round I)

27 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?

27 February 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Just over a week ago, Donald Trump gathered members of the world’s press before him and told them they were liars. “The press, honestly, is out of control,” he ... Read More Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

27 February 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

On April 12, 1982, Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the K.G.B., ordered foreign-intelligence operatives to carry out “active measures”—aktivniye meropriyatiya—against the reëlection campaign of President Ronald Reagan. Unlike classic ... Read More Trump, Putin and the New Cold War

23 February 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Quando si incontra online una pagina per segnalare le molestie ricevute da un bot – cioè da un programma automatico – viene da chiedersi se per caso non si ... Read More Così funziona la propaganda politica a colpi di bot su Twitter

6 February 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

CHICAGO — Daniel John Sobieski, 68, climbed the stairs in his modest brick home and settled into a worn leather chair for another busy day of tweeting. But he ... Read More As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work

31 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Russia has skilfully exploited social media to divide the West and increase Moscow’s power in Europe, the US and eventually Asia. The use of social media as a platform ... Read More Fake News: Why the West is Blind to Russia’s Propaganda Today

18 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Sind womöglich Maschinen schuld? Gemeint ist die britische Anti-EU Entscheidung von vergangenem Freitag. Vor der Abstimmung waren auffällig viele Pro-Brexit Stimmen in den sozialen Netzwerken zu finden, vor allem ... Read More Pro #Brexit Twitter Bots (in German)

17 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

We are pleased to announce a special issue of the journal Big Data dedicated to computational propaganda. This special issue is guest edited by project members Professor Phil Howard ... Read More Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data

14 January 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Does social media use have a positive or negative impact on civic engagement? The cynical “slacktivism hypothesis” holds that if citizens use social media for political conversation, those conversations ... Read More Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slactivism Hypothesis: Lessons from Mexico’s “El Bronco

10 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Automated social media accounts known as ‘bots’ may be used to distort political perception online. We speak with research director Samuel Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Computational Propaganda ... Read More Fake News Bots

7 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

On Sunday 4th December last year, 28 year old father of two Edgar Welch woke early, told his family he had some chores to do, packed an assault rifle ... Read More Pizza, politics and pure fiction: the rise of fake news

4 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

1. Es postet die Maschine. Wenn TwitterBots Politik machen. 2. Häppchenweise. Über Micro-Learning und Fortbildung in kleinen Portionen. 3. Stuttgart oder Detroit? Das autonome Auto als Kampfplatz zwischen alten ... Read More Computer & Neue Medien (in German)

15 December 2016

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

On social media, our political battles are increasingly automated. People who head to Twitter to discuss their ideals are, often unwittingly, conversing with legions of bots: accounts preprogrammed to ... Read More On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots

17 November 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been particularly active on public policy issues, political crises, and elections. We collected data ... Read More Bots and Automation over Twitter during the U.S. Election

10 November 2016

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Social media, by this point, is not new. But in this election season, it’s played a bigger role in our politics than ever before. NPR’s Sam ... Read More Social Media’s Increasing Role In The 2016 Presidential Election

31 October 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been particularly active on public policy issues, political crises, and elections. We collected data ... Read More Bots and Automation over Twitter during the Third U.S. Presidential Debate

27 October 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Web robots dedicated to posting pro-Hillary Clinton tweets appear to have become more vocal in the second US presidential debate, says a study. But it adds that pro-Donald Trump ... Read More Pro-Clinton Bots ‘Fought Back but Outnumbered in Second Debate’