Improving Predictive Accuracy in Elections

14 December 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Abstract: The problem of accurately predicting vote counts in elections is considered in this article. Typically, small-sample polls are used to estimate or predict election outcomes. In this study, a ... Read More Improving Predictive Accuracy in Elections

2 June 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Project members Tim Hwang and Sam Woolley have a new article in Slate discussing bots that follow political candidates. Let’s be clear: Coordinated campaigns of misinformation and manipulation on ... Read More The Most Important Lesson From the Dust-Up Over Trump’s Fake Twitter Followers

27 March 2017

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Our research into the 2016 US election was covered by the Financial Times. Nearly a quarter of web content shared on Twitter by users in the battleground state of ... Read More Fake News is Widely Shared as the Real Thing

26 March 2017

Authors: Robert Gorwa

Our project was featured in a 60 Minutes investigation of ‘fake news’ and disinformation. Phil Howard leads the Internet Institute at the University of Oxford which examines misinformation on ... Read More How fake news becomes a popular, trending topic

27 February 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Our project research on the US Election was mentioned in the New Yorker. On April 12, 1982, Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the K.G.B., ordered foreign-intelligence operatives to carry ... Read More Trump, Putin and the New Cold War

15 December 2016

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

The project’s research on the 2016 US Election was featured in the New York Times. People who head to Twitter to discuss their ideals are, often unwittingly, conversing with ... Read More On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots

18 November 2016

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The project’s research on the US Presidential Election was covered in The New York Times. An automated army of pro-Donald J. Trump chatbots overwhelmed similar programs supporting Hillary Clinton ... Read More Automated Pro-Trump Overwhelmed Pro-Clinton Messages, Researchers Say

17 November 2016

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The project’s research on the 2016 US election was covered in Bloomberg. Donald Trump’s supporters made a surprisingly strong showing on Nov. 8, and not just at polling places in the ... Read More The Trump Twitter Bots Went Hard on Election Day

16 November 2016

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The project’s research on the 2016 US election was covered in the Daily Beast. According to a new memo compiling data from the election by a team of researchers ... Read More How Pro-Trump Twitter Bots Spread Fake News

12 November 2016

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The project’s research on the 2016 US election was covered in Wiired. Following the third debate, automated pro-Trump accounts on Twitter pumped out seven times more messages than pro-Clinton accounts. Most of ... Read More How Bots, Twitter, and Hackers Pushed Trump to the Finish Line

10 November 2016

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

The project’s research was discussed on NPR, with an appearance from Project Member Doug Guilebeault. SANDERS: So yeah. Bots are these fake accounts on Twitter that are preprogrammed. There’s ... Read More Social Media’s Increasing Role In The 2016 Presidential Election

9 November 2016

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  The project’s research on the 2016 US election was covered in Wired. But how many of these are bots? According to Sam Woolley, a researcher from Oxford University’s ... Read More The Political Twitter Bots Will Rage This Election Day

9 November 2016

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Our research on the 2016 US election was covered in the Daily Dot. According to a recent study released by a trio of researchers at Hungary’s Corvinus University, Oxford University in ... Read More How pro-Trump Twitter bots are still manipulating the 2016 conversation

5 November 2016

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Our research into the 2016 US election was covered by McClatchy. Researchers say highly automated social media engines are working for both major presidential candidates, posing as real people ... Read More That pro-Trump Tweet that Made Your Blood Boil? It Probably Came From a Bot

23 October 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

The project’s research on the 2016 US election was featured in the CBC. What sort of volume is out there? It’s — pardon the phrase — huge. And it’s ... Read More Partisan Twitter bots distorting U.S. presidential candidates’ popularity

20 October 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

The project’s work into the 2016 US election was covered by CNN. University researchers who track political activity on Twitter have found that traffic on pro-Trump hashtags was twice ... Read More A third of pro-Trump tweets are generated by bots

23 May 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

In the midst of the most unprecedented election season in recent history, questioning the political power of technology is now more important than ever. Over on Wired, Samuel Wooley ... Read More How Twitter Bots Could Sway the Outcome of the Presidential Election