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    Covid19

    Oxford Internet Institute is applying its multi-disciplinary approach to help the world make sense of the societal and economic impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in the digital age.

    This page collects together the OII’s responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

     

    News

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    Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
    NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy
    Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study
    How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
    Media
    Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed
    Digital Technology
    COVID-19 and the Digital Divides
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    What Big Tech does to discourse, and the forgotten tech tool that can make tech less big with Cory Doctorow
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    State-backed media from China and Russia targets European and Latin American audiences with coronavirus news
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    Countering the COVID-19 Misinfodemic with Text Similarity and Social Data Science
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    Understanding Online Misinformation in Iran, the Epicentre of Coronavirus in the Middle East

    Mentions in the press

    Financial Times
    TikTok battles to stay ‘apolitical’ ahead of US election
    Read in The Financial Times
    Forbes
    Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work
    Read in Forbes
    Medical Xpress
    NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy
    Read in Medical Xpress
    Politico
    Gig platforms treated workers ‘unfairly’ during pandemic, study says
    Read in Politico
    Tech Tent
    PODCAST: How misinformation spreads
    Read in Tech Tent
    Financial Times
    Revamped NHS tracing app gets off to promising start
    Read in The Financial Times
    Tech Round
    Facebook Fact-Checkers Spot Less Than 1% of Coronavirus-Related Fake News, Oxford Study Finds
    Read in Tech Round
    The Telegraph
    Facebook is hampering efforts to crack down on Covid-19 fake videos
    Read in The Telegraph
    Public Technology.net
    Policymakers must start asking difficult questions on the ethics of AI in healthcare
    Read in Public Technology.net
    Wired
    Your Apple Watch could soon tell you if you’ve got coronavirus
    Read in Wired