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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

    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
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    Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance
    Almost half of all administrative tasks in general practice could be automated, says new report
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    COVID-19 apps and their ethical considerations

    Mentions in the press

    The New York Times
    Covid-19 misinformation websites benefit from Google and Amazon ad networks, study says.
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    Sky News
    Coronavirus: Legislation needed to stop ‘virulent’ spread of COVID disinformation
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    El Pais
    Privacy: the totalitarian risk
    Read in El País
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    The Great Facebook Boycott: Will it make any difference?
    Read in Al Jazeera
    The Conversation
    A more guided visit – how to reopen museums and galleries safely
    Read in The Conversation
    The Globe Post
    Russian, Chinese Media Target Europeans With COVID-19 Fake News: Study
    Read in The Globe Post
    Rappler
    Distorted Chinese, Russian virus news takes root in West – study
    Read in Rappler
    Inverse
    How The Internet Will Change Our Coronavirus Memories
    Read in Inverse
    Les Echos
    Containment? Very little for them!
    Read in Les Echos
    Association of MBAs
    ‘The lockdown will never be for me’: investigating cognitive and emotional behaviours around social distancing
    Read in Association of MBAs